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A river landscape with a mother and child on a path and a farmstead beyond
Details
Attributed to Meindert Hobbema (Amsterdam 1638-1709)
A river landscape with a mother and child on a path and a farmstead beyond
with signature 'M hobbema' (lower right)
oil on panel
17½ x 25¾ in. (44.4 x 65.4 cm.)
A river landscape with a mother and child on a path and a farmstead beyond
with signature 'M hobbema' (lower right)
oil on panel
17½ x 25¾ in. (44.4 x 65.4 cm.)
Provenance
Comte Montbrison, Château Roch.
with C. Sedelmeyer, Paris.
A. de Ridder, Schönberg, near Cronberg, Frankfurt-am-Main; sale, Paris, 2 June 1924 (102,000 Francs).
with Knoedler; Christie's, London, 1 May 1925, lot 100, as 'M. Hobbema' (580 gns. to Pelmain).
Anon. sale, Laborderie Fisher, Lucerne, 19 July 1927, to Kröller.
Hoogendijk, the Hague, 1929.
with C. Sedelmeyer, Paris.
A. de Ridder, Schönberg, near Cronberg, Frankfurt-am-Main; sale, Paris, 2 June 1924 (102,000 Francs).
with Knoedler; Christie's, London, 1 May 1925, lot 100, as 'M. Hobbema' (580 gns. to Pelmain).
Anon. sale, Laborderie Fisher, Lucerne, 19 July 1927, to Kröller.
Hoogendijk, the Hague, 1929.
Literature
C. Hofstede de Groote, A Catalogue Raisonné, etc., IV, London, 1912, p. 362, no. 29, as Meindert Hobbema.
G. Broulhiet, Meindert Hobbema, Paris, 1938, p. 264, no. 324, illustrated, as Meindert Hobbema.
W. Bode, Die Gemäldegalerie des Herrn A. de Ridder in Seiner Villa zu Schönberg bei Cronberg im Taunus, p. 30, no. 13, illustrated, as Meindert Hobbema.
G. Broulhiet, Meindert Hobbema, Paris, 1938, p. 264, no. 324, illustrated, as Meindert Hobbema.
W. Bode, Die Gemäldegalerie des Herrn A. de Ridder in Seiner Villa zu Schönberg bei Cronberg im Taunus, p. 30, no. 13, illustrated, as Meindert Hobbema.
Sale room notice
Despite the apparent differences between this picture and its illustrations in Broulhiet and the de Ridder catalogue, it is the same picture, and has the stencil of the Christie's stock number from the 1925 sale on the cradling. The present owner has confirmed that the picture was cleaned in the mid-1950s, and that the changes date from that point, including the re-emergence of the two figures currently in the left foreground.