Jan Wynants (1631/2-1684)

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

Details

Jan Wynants (1631/2-1684)

A wooded Landscape with a Horseman on a Track approaching a Manor House
signed and dated 'J Wynants 1660'

18 5/8 x 22in. (47.5 x 56cm.)

Provenance

(Perhaps) Poullain, Receveur Général des Domaines du Roi; (+) sale, Paris, 15-21 March 1780 (1,300 francs)
Edward Lloyd, Manchester, 1835
Captain E. N. F. Loyd, Shaw Hill, Melksham, Wiltshire; Christie's, 30 April 1937, lot 142 (390gns. to Leggatt for Lieut.-Col. T. R. Badger, D.S.O.)
Mrs. E. M. Gordon, Biddlesden Park, Brackley, Northamptonshire; (+) Christie's, 11 April 1986, lot 45 (purchased by the present owner)

Literature

J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné., etc., VI, 1835, pp.234-5, no.24, and 274-5, no.154
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné, etc., VIII, 1927, p.471, no.176

Engraved

Riollet in the Poullain Gallery, no.119

Lot Essay

The Riollet engraving shows more figures on the path; also the picture in the Poullain collection was slightly wider. It is therefore not certain that the present lot is that described by Smith and Hofstede de Groot as in this collection

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