Lot 3029* - A218 Tableaux de Maîtres Anciens - vendredi, 18. septembre 2026, 14h00
AERT VAN DER NEER
(1603 Amsterdam 1677)
River landscape with figures. 1640.
Oil on panel.
Signed and indistinctly dated lower centre: AvdNeer 1640.
21.3 × 25 cm.
Provenance:
- By inheritance, H. J. van Aalst, Hoevelaken.
- Probably auction Sotheby Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 13 December 1982, lot 54.
- Auction Christie’s, London, 4 July 1997, lot 1.
- Konrad Bernheimer collection, Munich.
- Albert van Daalen (1927–2018) and Leonie van Daalen-Röell (1930–2018) collection, circa 1997.
- European collection.
Literature:
- F. Bachmann: Zu Datierung eines Landschaftsbildes von Aert van der Neer, in: Oud Holland, Vol. LXXXIII, no. 3/4, 1968, p. 220.
- Wolfgang Schulz: Aert van der Neer, Doornspijk 2002, pp. 30 and 443, cat. no. 1290, illustration on p. 29.
This painting by Aert van der Neer was created in 1640, at the beginning of a decade of intense artistic experimentation. During this phase of his career, he began to perfect his twilight and moonlit landscapes. He had settled in Amsterdam in 1628 and quickly achieved considerable success there.
The gentle view across the landscape bathed in golden afternoon sunlight reflects both the technical complexity and the stylistic subtlety of Van der Neer's work. The scene depicts a village beside one of the countless inland waterways of the Netherlands.
Van der Neer leads the eye into the landscape through a succession of banks lined with reeds and pollarded willows. The old houses with their red roofs are surrounded by lush vegetation, whose branches and leaves catch the light. In the foreground, two peasants are in conversation. Painted in a turbulent century, the typically Dutch terrain and rural tranquillity would likely have appealed strongly to Van der Neer's Amsterdam clientele.
The gentle view across the landscape bathed in golden afternoon sunlight reflects both the technical complexity and the stylistic subtlety of Van der Neer's work. The scene depicts a village beside one of the countless inland waterways of the Netherlands.
Van der Neer leads the eye into the landscape through a succession of banks lined with reeds and pollarded willows. The old houses with their red roofs are surrounded by lush vegetation, whose branches and leaves catch the light. In the foreground, two peasants are in conversation. Painted in a turbulent century, the typically Dutch terrain and rural tranquillity would likely have appealed strongly to Van der Neer's Amsterdam clientele.
CHF 15 000 / 25 000 | (€ 15 460 / 25 770)
Vendu pour CHF 18 750 (frais inclus)