Jan van der Heyden (1637-1712)

A Farmhouse with Gentry by a Tree and Children playing by a Pool, an extensive landscape with a church tower beyond

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Jan van der Heyden (1637-1712)
A Farmhouse with Gentry by a Tree and Children playing by a Pool, an extensive landscape with a church tower beyond
signed and dated 'V D Heide 1668.' (VDH linked, lower left)
oil on panel
9 x 13in. (22.9 x 33cm.)

Provenance

According to Hofstede de Groot, possibly identical with no. 7 of the pictures assigned to Sara van der Heyden in the inventory of her widowed mother's effects, 18 May 1712 (valued at 36 florins).
J. van Idsinga; sale, de Vries... Roos, Amsterdam, 2 Nov. 1840, lot 15.
Charles T. Yerkes, New York, by 1904.
Eugène Fischof; sale, Lair-Dubreuil, Baudoin, Paris, 14 June 1913, lot 54.
Anon. Sale, Muller, Amsterdam, 20 May 1919, lot 132.

Literature

Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of Charles T. Yerkes Esq., New York, I, New York, 1904, no. 42, illustrated.
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné, etc., VIII, London, 1927, p. 408, no. 277.
H. Wagner, Jan van der Heyden, Amsterdam and Haarlem, 1971, p. 107, no. 179, illustrated.

Sale room notice

The signature and date are not contemporary with the picture.

Lot Essay

Mr. Willem van der Watering has pointed out that the artist painted a number of similar landscapes of almost the same dimensions as the present work (Wagner, op. cit., nos. 180, 182, 186 and 197). The present picture is the only one of this group to be dated.

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