Jakob Grimmer (1526-after1589)

A winter landscape on a snowy day: skaters on a frozen moat by a country mansion, foot soldiers and a horse and wagon on a road in the foreground, villagers engaged in a snowball fight beyond

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Jakob Grimmer (1526-after1589)
A winter landscape on a snowy day: skaters on a frozen moat by a country mansion, foot soldiers and a horse and wagon on a road in the foreground, villagers engaged in a snowball fight beyond
signed lower right GRIMER
oil on panel
30.8 x 41.8 cm

Provenance

with M. Liernur, The Hague

Exhibited

Laren (N.H.), Singer Memorial Foundation, Modernen van Toen 1570-1630, 15 June-1 September 1963, n^.83
Amsterdam, Kunsthandel P. de Boer, Nederland Water/land, 13 January-19 February 1972, n^.83, as Abel Grimmer n^.66

Lot Essay

The rendering of snow flakes was first probably introduced in painting by Pieter Breughel I in his Adoration of the Magi in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Compare also to the winter landscape by Lucas van Valckenborch, 1586, in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, inv.n^.1664 (A. Wied, Lucas and Marten van Valckenborch, 1990, p.158, n^.51, with ill.).

Sold with a certificate by R. de Bertier de Sauvigny, dated 12 September 1997.

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