Dutch Masterpieces from the Theiline Scheumann Collection

Dutch Masterpieces from the Theiline Scheumann Collection

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Dutch Masterpieces from the Theiline Scheumann Collection

Aert van der Neer

A marshy forest landscape at moonlight, with stags at left and a view of a town beyond

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January 26, 04:01 PM GMT

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1,000,000 - 1,500,000 USD

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Dutch Masterpieces from the Theiline Scheumann Collection

Aert van der Neer

Gorinchem circa 1603 - 1677 Amsterdam

A marshy forest landscape at moonlight, with stags at left and a view of a town beyond


signed with monogram lower right: AV DN (in ligature)

oil on panel

panel: 19¾ by 30⅝ in.; 50.2 by 77.8 cm.

framed: 27¼ by 38 in.; 69.2 by 96.5 cm.

Possibly August von Hardenberg (1750-1822), Neuhardenberg;
Possibly "Society of Patriotic Friends of Art," Prague, by 1864, then transferred to the Rudolphinum, but not in the catalogue of that gallery (according to Hofstede de Groot);
With Kurt Müllenmeister, Solingen, by 1980;
With Norbert Pokutta, Munich, by 1991;
With Otto Naumann, Ltd., New York, by 1991;
From whom acquired. 
Possibly T. Fontane, Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg: Das Oderland, vol. II, Berlin 1863, p. 168; 
Possibly G. Parthey, Deutscher Bildersaal, Verzeichnis der Deutschland vorhandenen Oelbilder..., Berlin 1864, p. 181;
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. VII, London 1923, p. 355, cat. no. 102b (as in the Society of Patriotic Friends of Art in Prague, then transferred to the Rudolphinum, but not in that gallery's catalogue);
Weltkunst, 15 May 1980, reproduced p. 1369;
F. Bachmann, Aert van der Neer, 1603/4-1677, Bremen 1982, pp. 55-56, reproduced fig. 48;
W. Schulz, Aert van der Neer, Doornspijk 2002, p. 285, cat. no. 654, reproduced in color plate 52 and fig. 202.