HERMAN VAN SWANEVELT (WOERDEN C. 1603-1655 PARIS)
HERMAN VAN SWANEVELT (WOERDEN C. 1603-1655 PARIS)
HERMAN VAN SWANEVELT (WOERDEN C. 1603-1655 PARIS)
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HERMAN VAN SWANEVELT (WOERDEN C. 1603-1655 PARIS)

A river landscape with goats and cattle, a farmhouse beyond

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HERMAN VAN SWANEVELT (WOERDEN C. 1603-1655 PARIS)
A river landscape with goats and cattle, a farmhouse beyond
signed and dated ‘H. SWANEVELT PARIS / 164[9]’ (lower right, on the embankment)
oil on canvas
24 x 35 in. (61 x 89 cm.)
Provenance
with Senger Bamberg Kunsthandel, Bamberg, by 1988.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 19 April 1989, lot 48, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
A.C. Steland, ‘Studien zu Herman van Swanevelt – Zeichnungen zu Fresken und Gemälden,’ Oud Holland, CXV, 2001-2002, pp. 46-47, 59, no. 31.
A.C. Steland, Herman van Swanevelt (um 1603-1655): Gemälde und Zeichnungen, I, Petersberg, 2010, p. 143, no. G 1, 31; II, p. 475, fig. G 150, as on panel(?).
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Lot Essay

Born in Woerden, near Utrecht, Herman van Swanevelt traveled to Paris in 1623 and had taken up residence in Rome by 1629, living there until 1641. Swanevelt again traveled briefly to the Eternal City in 1649 and returned through Paris on his way back to his native Woerden that year. While the final digit of the date in this painting has been read as both a ‘4’ and a ‘9’, Anne Charlotte Steland has argued convincingly in favor of a date at the end of the 1640s (loc. cit.). She notes in particular the similarity in which the artist has treated the reed bush, spotted foliage and terrain in the present painting and one inscribed and dated ‘ROMA 1649’ in a Florida private collection (for that painting, see A.C. Steland, op. cit., no. G 1, 48).

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