An Amsterdam canal scene

Details

Jan van Kessel (Amsterdam 1641-1680)
An Amsterdam canal scene
signed 'JvKessel' (lower left)
oil on canvas
24 7/8 x 20 7/8 in. (65.7 x 53 cm.)

Provenance

(Possibly) Anonymous sale; Amsterdam, 6 August 1810, lot 55 (Dfl. 40 to Texier).
J. Singer, London, 1949.
Private collection, Amsterdam.
with P. de Boer, Amsterdam, 1971.
with Frederick Mont, New York.
with Newhouse Galleries, Inc., New York, 1957, whom acquired by the family of the present owner.

Literature

H. Wagner, Jan van der Heyden 1737-1712, Amsterdam/Haarlem, 1971, p. 25, as 'Canal' at de Boer.
A.I. Davies, Jan van Kessel, Ghent, 1992, p. 119-120, pl. 11.

Exhibited

Dallas, Texas, Meadows Museum, Private Views: Flemish and Dutch Paintings from Dallas Collections,19 April-27 May 1990, no. 11, (catalogue by S.A. Sullivan).

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Lot Essay

Alice Davies dates the present painting to c. 1670, comparing this unidentified inner-city canal, most likely in Amsterdam, to Van Kessel's large View of Westerkerk of 1669 (Musée d'Ixelles, Brussels) and the Kloveniersburgwal with the Bushuis of 1672 (?) in the Amsterdam Historical Museum. Working from a photograph, she writes that it "appears to be one of Jan van Kessel's loveliest pictures" (loc. cit.).

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