A winter landscape with skaters and other figures near a village, with a church
Details
SALOMON ROMBOUTS (HAARLEM 1655-1700⁄2 ITALY) A winter landscape with skaters and other figures near a village, with a church with signature 'J.v.Cappelle' (lower centre) oil on panel 21 7⁄8 x 17 ¾ in. (55.6 x 45 cm.)
Provenance
(Possibly with Matthiesen, Berlin, as 'Jan van de Cappelle' (according to RKD files). (Possibly) with Colnaghi, London, as 'Jan van de Cappelle' (according to RKD files). (Possibly) with Duits, London, 1929, as 'Jan van de Cappelle' (according to RKD files). with Gutekunst Gallery, London, from whom acquired (before 1931) by, Archibald James, Bonningtons, Hunsdon Ware, Herts, d. 1931, and by descent to his daughter, Marion James (1885-1961), who married Clive Cookson (1879-1971), Nether Warden, Hexham, and by descent.
Literature
M. Russell, Jan van de Cappelle, Leigh-on-Sea, 1975, p. 90, no. 20, fig. 30, as 'Jan van de Cappelle'. B. Haak, The Golden Age: Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, New York, 1984, p. 477, fig. 1052, as 'Jan van de Cappelle'. R. Ruurs, 'A Winter Landscape by Salomon Rombouts', Mercury, VI, 1987, p. 49, fig. 1.
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Dutch Pictures 1450-1750, 2 July 1952-14 September 1953, no. 329, as 'Jan van de Cappelle' (lent by Clive Cookson).