Property from a Private Collection, Germany
Roelandt Savery
Geese preening on a bank by a marsh, frogs in the foreground, swans beyond
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December 4, 01:51 PM GMT
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20,000 - 30,000 GBP
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Property from a Private Collection, Germany
Roelandt Savery
Kortrijk 1576–1639 Utrecht
Geese preening on a bank by a marsh, frogs in the foreground, swans beyond
signed lower right: ROELANT / S[AVERY]
oil on hardwood panel, possibly fruitwood, circular
diameter: 18.5 cm.; 7¼ in.
framed: 29.8 x 29.6 cm.; 11¾ x 11⅝ in.
With Galerie Robert Finck, Brussels, by November 1960;
With K.J. Müllenmeister, Solingen, by 1989.
Brussels, Galerie Robert Finck, Exposition de tableaux de maîtres flamands du XVe au XXe siècle
, 11–27 November 1960, no. 19.
K.J. Müllenmeister, Œuvreverzeichnis Roelant Savery, Freren 1988, pp. 114 and 262–63, no. 141, reproduced.
Kurt Müllenmeister dates this painting to around 1604, situating it as the only one of its kind before the artist's Prague period. He considers it the pendant to Cow in a landscape, monogrammed and dated 1604, which sold at Koller Auktionen in Vienna, on 26 March 2021, lot 3022, for 128,400 CHF.1
1 Oil on panel, 17.5 cm. in diameter; Müllenmeister 1988, pp. 71, 160 and 324, reproduced in colour pl. 52.
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