Jan Havicksz. Steen (Leiden 1626-1679)

A wooded landscape with peasants on a path by a watermill, a hill beyond

Details

Jan Havicksz. Steen (Leiden 1626-1679)
A wooded landscape with peasants on a path by a watermill, a hill beyond
oil on panel
17.3/8 x 21.3/8 in. (44 x 54.2 cm.)

Provenance

with C. Benedict, Paris.
with S. Nijstad, The Hague, 1956.
with G. Cramer, The Hague (Delft, Prinsenhof Museum, Art Fair, Summer 1970, illustrated p. 28).
Sidney J. van den Bergh, Wassenaar.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 10 December 1975, lot 74.
Anon. sale, Christie's, London, 12 December 1980, lot 15 (6,500).

Literature

L. de Vries, Jan Steen de Kluchtschilder, Diss., Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (privately published), 1977, p. 71, no. 181.
K. Braun, Jan Steen, Rotterdam, 1980, p. 179, no. B-286, illustrated.

Lot Essay

We are grateful to Dr. Lyckle de Vries for confirming the attribution (private communication 3 March 1999). He dates the picture early in the artist's career, comparing it to Moses striking the Rock in the Stdelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main, and to John the Baptist preaching in the Wilderness in the Nivaagards Malerisamling, Denmark (K. Braun, op. cit., nos. 36 and 58, both illustrated).

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