Jan Wynants (1625-1684)
Jan Wynants (1625-1684)

A river Landscape with elegant Travellers and a Peasant Family on a path

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Jan Wynants (1625-1684)
Wynants, J.
A river Landscape with elegant Travellers and a Peasant Family on a path
signed with initials 'J.W.'
oil on panel
10 x 9.5/8in. (26 x 24.5cm.)
Provenance
Anon. Sale, J. van der Merck, Amsterdam, Aug. 25, 1773, lot 381 (180 florins to Yver).
Duc de Choiseul-Praslin; (+) sale, Paillet, Paris, Feb. 18, 1793, lot 117 (1060 florins).
Anon. Sale, Jurriaans, Amsterdam, Aug. 28, 1817, lot 79 (530 florins to De Vries).
with Thos. Agnews, London, from whom purchased by the present owner.
Literature
J. Smith, A Catalogue raisonn ... etc, VI, 1829, p. 242, no. 48 'The Charitable Cavalier'.
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue raisonn...etc., 1976, VIII, p. 495, no. 278 and p. 469, no. 169.

Lot Essay

The staffage is by Johannes Lingelbach.

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