Lot Essay
We are grateful to Ellis Dullaart, of the RKD, The Hague, for proposing the attribution on the basis of a photograph.
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A wooded winter landscape with figures chopping wood beside a horse-drawn cart with skaters on a frozen river, a village beyond
Details
Circle of Jules-César-Denis van Loo (Paris 1743-1821)
A wooded winter landscape with figures chopping wood beside a horse-drawn cart with skaters on a frozen river, a village beyond
oil on canvas
15 7/8 x 43 1/8 in. (40 x 109.5 cm.)
A wooded winter landscape with figures chopping wood beside a horse-drawn cart with skaters on a frozen river, a village beyond
oil on canvas
15 7/8 x 43 1/8 in. (40 x 109.5 cm.)
Provenance
(Probably) Lionel Tollemache, 8th Earl of Dysart (1794-1878), Ham House, Surrey, by 1844, and by descent to,
William John Manners Tollemache, 9th Earl of Dysart, DL (1895-1935), by whom bequeathed with the house in 1935 to his second cousin,
Sir Lyonel Tollemache, 4th Bt. (1854-1952), and by descent to his granddaughter Barbara Judd (1926-2013).
William John Manners Tollemache, 9th Earl of Dysart, DL (1895-1935), by whom bequeathed with the house in 1935 to his second cousin,
Sir Lyonel Tollemache, 4th Bt. (1854-1952), and by descent to his granddaughter Barbara Judd (1926-2013).
Literature
(Probably) W.C. Joel, A Catalogue and Valuation of the Furniture, Plate, Books, Pictures and Engravings at Ham House, Petersham, Surrey, Richmond, 1911, p. 109.
(Probably) C. Rowell ed. Ham House, 400 Years of Collecting and Patronage, New Haven, 2013, Appendix 5: 'The 1844 Inventory', p. 499, listed as Polidore.
(Probably) C. Rowell ed. Ham House, 400 Years of Collecting and Patronage, New Haven, 2013, Appendix 5: 'The 1844 Inventory', p. 499, listed as Polidore.