Frederick de Moucheron (Emden 1633-1686 Amsterdam)
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Frederick de Moucheron (Emden 1633-1686 Amsterdam)

An Italianate wooded landscape with travellers and sheep on a path, a horse-drawn carriage and riders entering a park landscape beyond

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Frederick de Moucheron (Emden 1633-1686 Amsterdam)
An Italianate wooded landscape with travellers and sheep on a path, a horse-drawn carriage and riders entering a park landscape beyond
signed 'Moucheron, ft.' (lower centre)
oil on canvas
55 1/8 x 47 1/8 in. (160 x 119.7 cm.)
Provenance
Arthur Robert Mills, 3rd Baron of Hillingdon (1891-1952), Messing Park, Essex; his sale, Christie's, London, 12 May 1950, lot 143 (105 gns. to the following).
Robert Thesiger.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 23 March 1960, lot 126 (£1,600 to Agnews for the following).
J. Paul Getty (1892-1976), Sutton Place, Surrey, and donated by his estate to
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, in 1978, and sold to benefit future painting acquisitions; Sotheby's, New York, 26 January 2007, lot 139 ($70,000).
Literature
E. Bénézit, Dictionnaire critique et documentaire..., VII, Paris, 1976, p. 572.
P. Cannon-Brookes, 'A Curious Twist', Art and Artists, XIII, no. 1, issue 146, May 1978, p. 13, where described as 'de Moucheron, the figures by Adriaen van de Velde'.
P. Cannon-Brookes, Twenty Masterpieces from the Natale Labia Collection, exhibition catalogue, London, 1978, p. 19, under no. 6, as 'de Moucheron, the figures by Adriaen van de Velde'.
P.C. Sutton, Dutch Art in America, Grand Rapids/Kampen, 1986, p. 145, as 'de Moucheron, the figures by Adriaen van de Velde'.
D. Jaffé, Summary Catalogue of European Paintings in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 1997, p. 89, illustrated, as 'de Moucheron, the figures attributed to Adriaen van de Velde'.
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Sale room notice
We are grateful to Bart Cornelis of The Burlington Magazine, author of the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Adriaen van de Velde, for suggesting that the staffage may indeed be by van de Velde, noting the recurrence of the foreground figure in a picutre by van de Velde at Leipzig.

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Lot Essay

The staffage in this painting has traditionally been ascribed to Adriaen van de Velde, with whom de Moucheron collaborated on many occassions. However, Marijke de Kinkelder has suggested an alternative attribution for the figures in the right foreground, to Johannes Lingelbach (RKD archive, Art-work no. 49942). This painting has been identified as a pendant to a painting in the Natale Labia collection, which was exhibited at Wildenstein, London, April-May 1978, in which the figures have also been ascribed to van de Velde.

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