Lot 3020* - A202 Old Master Paintings - Friday, 23. September 2022, 02.00 PM
ADRIAEN PIETERSZ. VAN DE VENNE
(Delft 1589–1662 The Hague)
Winter landscape with elegant figures.
Oil on panel.
Signed lower left: AVenne.
21 cm D (round).
Provenance:
- Private collection, The Netherlands, before 1961.
- With P. de Boer, Amsterdam, 1961.
- With Alfred Brod Gallery, London, 1961.
- Private collection of Mr and Mrs Henry H. Weldon, New York.
- Sale Sotheby's, New York, The Weldon Collection Sale, 22.4.2015, Lot 8.
- Private collection.
Exhibited:
- London 1961, Annual Autumn Exhibition of Paintings of Old Dutch and Flemish Masters, Alfred Brod Gallery, 5.10–4.11.1961, no. 60.
- Providence 1964, Northern Baroque Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Weldon, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 15.4.–7.6.1964, no. 24.
- New York 1966, The Collection of Mr and Mrs Henry H. Weldon, Finch College Museum of Art, 11.5.–30.6.1966, no. 40.
- Birmingham 1995, The Golden Age of Dutch Painting, Birmingham, AL, 22.4.–18.6.1995, no. 22.
- New Orleans 1997, In the Eye of the Beholder: Northern Baroque Paintings form the Collection of Henry H. Weldon, New Orleans Museum of Art, no. 56.
- Baltimore 1999, An Eye for Detail. 17th Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings from the Collection of Henry H. Weldon, The Walters Art Gallery, 20.6.–5.9.1999, no. 56.
Literature:
- Apollo, London, September 1961, ill. title page.
- The Connoisseur, October 1961, p. xxxiv, with ill.
- Exh.cat. Providence 1964, cat. no. 24.
- Exh.cat. New Orleans 1997, pp. 142–144, cat.no. 56, ill. p. 143.
- Exh.cat. Baltimore 1999, pp. 130–132, cat.no. 56, ill. p. 131.
- Edwin Buijsen: De schilderijenproductie van Adriaen Pietersz. van de Venne (1589–1662). Traditie - Innovatie - Commercie, Dissertation, Nijmegen 2018, vol. I, p. 74, footnote 8.
Our thanks to Dr Edwin Buijsen for his expert assistance in cataloguing this painting.
CHF 300 000 / 400 000 | (€ 309 280 / 412 370)
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