A wooded landscape with travellers on a path by a canal, a town beyond

Details

Aert van der Neer (Amsterdam ?1603/4-1677)
A wooded landscape with travellers on a path by a canal, a town beyond
signed with monogram 'AV DN' ('AV' and 'DN' linked, lower right)
oil on canvas
13¼ x 16 3/8 in. (33.8 x 41.5 cm.)

Provenance

M.J. Haller, Hamburg, by whom bequeathed in 1883 to the following,
Hamburg Kunsthalle, by whom sold on 18 November 1922 to
Paul Bottenwieser, Berlin.
with Newhouse Galleries, New York, where acquired by the following,
Thomas Mellon Evans; Christie’s, New York, 22 May 1998, lot 16 ($85,000),
when acquired by the present owner.

Literature

C. Hofstede de Groot, A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch painters of the seventeenth century, etc., London, 1918, VII, p. 340, no. 39a, as ‘canvas laid down on panel’.
W. Schulz, Aert van der Neer, Doornspijk, 2002, p. 445, no. 1302, pl. 26.

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Lot Essay

A sense of easy tranquillity pervades this characteristic work by Aert van der Neer. His employment of trees to frame one side of the picture and lone figures that meander along a winding path references Flemish landscape painters such as Gillis van Coninxloo, while his use of a high vantage point is more idiosyncratic.

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