Anthonie Jansz. van der Croos (Alkmaar 1606/7-1662/3 The Hague)

A landscape with peasants resting under a tree, the city of Delft beyond

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Anthonie Jansz. van der Croos (Alkmaar 1606/7-1662/3 The Hague)
A landscape with peasants resting under a tree, the city of Delft beyond
signed and dated ‘AV CROOS / 1650’ (‘AV’ linked, lower right)
oil on panel
8 1/8 x 10 in. (20.6 x 25.2 cm.)

Provenance

Joseph Camberlyn d’Amougies, Belgium; Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, 13 July 1926, lot 610, with the date incorrectly listed.
Anonymous sale; Paul Brandt, Amsterdam, 11 April 1967 (according to Beck).
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, Amsterdam, 20 May 1987, lot 139.
with Heide Hübner, Würzburg, by 1987.
Private collection, Bremen, by 2013.
Private collection, northern Germany; Karl & Faber, Munich, 9 May 2014, lot 9, as Attributed to Jacob Theunisz. van der Croos.

Literature

H.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen: 1596-1656, IV, Doornspijk, 1991, p. 86, no. 180, fig. 180.

Exhibited

Brussels, Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts, Exposition de tableaux de maîtres anciens, 1880, no. 47.

Lot Essay

Anthonie Jansz. van der Croos worked in Alkmaar in 1649 before settling in The Hague, where he became a founding member of the artists' confraternity, Pictura. This fresh, beautifully preserved panel is the pendant to one depicting Leiden on the horizon that was exhibited at Maastricht in 1985 (op. cit., no. 181).

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