JAN ASSELIJN (DIEPPE AFTER 1610-1652 AMSTERDAM)
JAN ASSELIJN (DIEPPE AFTER 1610-1652 AMSTERDAM)
JAN ASSELIJN (DIEPPE AFTER 1610-1652 AMSTERDAM)
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JAN ASSELIJN (DIEPPE AFTER 1610-1652 AMSTERDAM)

A military skirmish in a wooded landscape

Details
JAN ASSELIJN (DIEPPE AFTER 1610-1652 AMSTERDAM)
A military skirmish in a wooded landscape
indistinctly signed and dated ‘[…]y[n] 163[?]’ (lower right)
oil on panel
15 7/8 x 28 1/8 in. (40.3 x 71.4 cm.)
Provenance
Steffan Stackelberg, Faehna, near Reval (Tallinn), Estonia.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 5 November 1986, lot 43, where acquired by the following,
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 1 May 2019, lot 201, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
A.C. Steland-Stief, Jan Asselijn, nach 1610 bis 1652, Amsterdam, 1971, pp. 27 and 125, no. 14, pl. VII.
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve. This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.

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Lot Essay


This painting is among the earliest works by Jan Asselijn, who alongside Jan Both and Jan Baptist Weenix is regarded as one of the most important Dutch Italianate landscapists of the mid-seventeenth century. Anne Charlotte Steland-Stief has suggested that the painting, which displays the influence of Asselijn’s master, the battle painter Jan Martszen de Jonge, dates to around 1634 on the basis of its similarities with a work dating to that year in the Herzog-Anton-Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig.

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