Property from the Collection of Dr Hinrich Bischoff
Pieter Stalpaert
A wooded landscape with travellers and a falconer on a path by a stream
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December 4, 01:51 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
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Property from the Collection of Dr Hinrich Bischoff
Pieter Stalpaert
Brussels circa 1572–before 1639 Amsterdam
A wooded landscape with travellers and a falconer on a path by a stream
signed and dated lower centre: PSTA / Stalpert 1628 (PSTA in ligature)
inscribed lower right: N.13
oil on oak panel
unframed: 74.1 x 108.5 cm.; 29⅛ x 42¾ in.
framed: 98.9 x 133.1 cm.; 38⅞ x 52⅜ in.
Geymüller collection, Vienna;
With Heide Hübner, Würzburg, by 1990;
Subsequently acquired by Dr Hinrich Bischoff (1936–2005);
Thence by inheritance.
Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, on loan by at least 2005 until March 2025.
J. Briels, Peintres flamands au berceau du Siècle d'Or hollandais, Antwerp 1997, pp. 217, 222 and 387, no. 342, reproduced in colour;
Y. Bruijnen, in Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. Volume I – Artists Born between 1570 and 1600, J. Bikker (ed.), Amsterdam 2007, p. 358–59, under no. 274.
This is one of only three known landscapes by the Brussels-born painter Pieter Stalpaert. The others are a painting, signed and dated 1635, in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam,1 and a work sold at Sotheby's, New York, in January 2008 for $85,000.2
1 Inv. no. SK-A-1581; oil on panel, 66.5 x 114.8 cm.; https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/object/---c38bf8c5324d02989f74e849b288908e
2 Anonymous sale ('Property from a Private Collection'), New York, Sotheby's, 24 January 2008, lot 276; https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2008/important-old-master-paintings-including-european-works-of-art-n08404/lot.276.html