David Vinckboons

Anonymous sale, London, Christie’s, 13 December 1985, lot 97, where acquired after the sale for £32,000.

Taichung, Taiwan Museum of Art, The Golden Age of Flemish Painting, 1988, no. 69.

J. Briels and A. Michel, Peintres flamands en Hollande, au début du Siècle d'Or (1585-1630), Antwerp 1987, p. 326, reproduced in colour p. 327, fig. 411;

A. Balis, in The Golden Age of Flemish Painting, exh. cat., Taichung 1988, p. 185, no. 69, reproduced in colour p. 186;

K. Ertz and C. Nitze-Ertz, David Vinckboons, Lingen 2016, vol. 10, pp. 344–45, no. 67, reproduced p. 345, fig. 67.

This painting is thought to date from c. 1620 when Vinckboons was departing from the style and influence of Gillis van Coninxloo (1544–1607) in the later period of his career.¹ The soft lighting creates a sense of depth, leading the eye through the woodland and into the distance. This work closely relates to another painting by Vinckboons which is dated to 1618 and is held in The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.²

¹ K. Ertz and C. Nitze-Ertz 2016, p. 345.

² Forest Landscape with a Recalcitrant Prophet, 1618, oil on panel, 68 х 107.5 cm, no. 457.