Follower of Aert van der Neer
A winter landscape with figures before a town
with indistinct monogram 'AV [...]' ('AV' linked, lower left)
oil on panel
14 7/8 x 20 5/8 in. (37.6 x 52.4 cm.)
Provenance
(Possibly) Jan Willem van Arp (d. 1799), Utrecht; his sale (†), van der Schley a.o., Amsterdam, 19 June 1800, lot 122, as Aert van der Neer (f 130 to Roos).
Literature
(Possibly) C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, VII, London, 1923, p. 454, no. 549a, as Aert van der Neer.
This painting reproduces, with changes and on a somewhat smaller scale, a work by Aert van der Neer today in the collection of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo.