Manner of Aert van der Neer (1603/04-1677)

Details

Manner of Aert van der Neer (1603/04-1677)

A Moonlit River Landscape with a Windmill

Bears monogram lower left:AVDN--oil on canvas
38 x 29½in. (96.5 x 75cm.)

Provenance

Henry S. Sanford, Belgium (U.S. Ambassador to Belgium) circa 1885, from whom acquired by
George H. Story, New York, circa 1900.
Dr. Francis Goodwin, Hartford, CT, by whom given in 1905 to
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT.

Literature

Wadsworth Atheneum, Wadsworth Atheneum Paintings, Catalogue 1. The Netherlands and German-Speaking Countries, 15th to 19th Centuries, 1978, p. 167, no. 101, pl. 103 [as Aert van der Neer (style)].

Lot Essay

When owned by Henry S. Sanford, the painting was attributed to John Crome. George Story reattributed it to Aert van der Neer while Norman L. Goldberg, in a letter dated May 27, 1973, to the Wadsworth Atheneum suggested an alternative attribution to John Berney Crome (1794-1842), son of John Crome.