HERMAN SAFTLEVEN (ROTTERDAM 1609-1685 UTRECHT)

A Rhenish landscape at sunset

Price realised USD 35,000
Estimate
USD 30,000 – USD 50,000
Closed: 15 Oct 2020
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HERMAN SAFTLEVEN (ROTTERDAM 1609-1685 UTRECHT)

A Rhenish landscape at sunset

Price realised USD 35,000
Closed: 15 Oct 2020
Price realised USD 35,000
Closed: 15 Oct 2020
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HERMAN SAFTLEVEN (ROTTERDAM 1609-1685 UTRECHT)
A Rhenish landscape at sunset
signed in monogram and dated 'HS 1675' ('HS' linked, lower left)
oil on panel
8 ¼ x 11 in. (21 x 27.9 cm.)
Provenance
J.B. van Lanken, Antwerp, 1835 (according to a label on the reverse).
James Whatman, Esq.; Christie’s, London, 20 February 1882, lot 38.
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 19 July 1973, lot 38.
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, Amsterdam, 10 November 1992, lot 132.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 6 December 1995, lot 263, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
W. Schulz, Herman Saftleven, 1609-1685, Berlin and New York, 1982, p. 177, no. 197.
P.C. Sutton, The Martin and Kathleen Feldstein Collection, privately published, 2020, pp. 78-79, no. 20, illustrated.
Exhibited
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, The Poetry of Everyday Life: Dutch Painting in Boston, 12 June-15 September 2002.

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