Old Masters Day Sale, including portrait miniatures from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher
Old Masters Day Sale, including portrait miniatures from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher
The Property of a Gentleman
Aert van der Neer
Winter landscape with figures skating and playing kolf on a frozen river
Lot Closed
December 9, 02:32 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
The Property of a Gentleman
Aert van der Neer
Amsterdam circa 1603/4 - 1677
Winter landscape with figures skating and playing kolf on a frozen river
signed with monogram, lower centre (and inscribed with another, lower right): AVDN (in ligature)
oil on canvas
unframed: 45.4 x 65 cm.; 17⅞ x 25⅝ in.
framed: 63.6 x 83.7 cm.; 25 x 33 in.
His posthumous Estate sale, Rome, Palazzo Ricci, 17 March 1845, lot 167, for 171 scudi;
William Harvey (d. 1867), Barnsley:
Thence by descent to his son, Henry Harvey (1867–1879), Leeds;
William Harvey (1879–1917), Leeds;
Private collection, The Netherlands;
J.Th.M. Schultz van Haegen, Aerdenhout;
By whom sold, London, Christie's, 29 March 1968, lot 84 (when illustrated in Illustrated London News, 23 March 1968; and Apollo, April 1968, p. XI);
Private collection, Nuremberg;
Whence sold, Cologne, Lempertz, 27 May 1991, lot 80 (when illustrated in Die Weltkunst, 1 July 1991, p. 1940; and The Burlington Magazine, May 1991);
Private collection of an industrialist family, Freiburg;
On the art market, Germany, by July 2013;
Anonymous sale, Sulzburg, Auktionshaus Kaupp, 5 October 2013, lot 4422, where acquired.
Kunst- en Antiekveilingen, vol. 17, The Hague 1992, reproduced p. 58;
J. Briels, Vlaamse schilders en de dageraad van Hollands Gouden Eeuw 1585–1630, Antwerp 1997, p. 241, reproduced in colour p. 238, fig. 380;
W. Schulz, Aert van der Neer, Doornspijk 2002, p. 185, no. 207 (as 'possibly authentic').
Ajaccio, Fesch Museum, on loan 2017–2020.
Aert van der Neer is known particularly for his moonlit and winter scenes. Like many other artists of the period, he was inspired by the severe conditions the Low Countries experienced in the 'Little Ice Age' of the mid-17th century, when canals and rivers froze and people became used to conducting their day-to-day business and leisure activities on the ice. For landscape artists intent on representing the effects of atmosphere and light on their surroundings, the unique conditions of the icy weather captured their imaginations to such a degree that the 'winter landscape' developed into an independent genre.