A nobleman in a state coach at rest escorted by his men and horses, with a gentleman on a white horse approaching and landscape beyond, traditionally identified as the meeting of the Duke of Lorraine and Marshal Turenne, an incident of the Thirty-Years' War

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ADAM FRANS VAN DER MEULEN (BRUSSELS 1632-1690 PARIS)
A nobleman in a state coach at rest escorted by his men and horses, with a gentleman on a white horse approaching and landscape beyond, traditionally identified as the meeting of the Duke of Lorraine and Marshal Turenne, an incident of the Thirty-Years' War
signed 'A.F.V. Mevlen.' (lower center, strengthened)
oil on canvas
32 ¾ x 48 ¼ in. (83.3 x 122.7 cm.)

Provenance

Lord Buckland collection.
with Blakeslee Gallery, New York, where acquired in 1910 by,
Thomas Barlow (T.B.) Walker (1840-1928), by 1912,
The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and by whom sold,
[Property of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis]; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 22 October 1970, lot 37.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 22 January 2004, lot 195, where acquired by the present owner.

Literature

Descriptive Catalogue of the Thomas B. Walker Art Collection, Minneapolis, 1912, p. 127-128, no. 191.
Descriptive Catalogue of the Thomas B. Walker Art Collection, Minneapolis, 1913, p. 148-149, no. 148.
E. Neuhaus, The T.B. Walker Art Collection, Minneapolis, 1919, p. 21.
The Walker Art Galleries, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1927, p. 107, no. 198.
I. Richefort, Adam-Francois Van der Meulen: peintre flamand au service de Louis XIV, Rennes and Brussels, 2004, p. 58, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

The present composition is similar to another by Adam Frans van der Meulen, Philippe François d'Arenberg meeting Troops, now in the National Gallery London (inv. no. NG1447).
The attribution of the present work was endorsed at the time of the 2004 sale by Marijke C. de Kinkelder, on the basis of photographs.

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