An Italianate landscape with travellers and peasants on a path by a river

细节

Herman van Swanevelt (Woerden 1600-1655 Paris)
An Italianate landscape with travellers and peasants on a path by a river
signed and dated 'SWANEVELT.FA.PARI'.1643 (strengthened, lower left)
oil on canvas
24½ x 20½ in. (62.2 x 52 cm.)
in an Italian carved, ebonised and gilded frame, (probably) 17th century, the sight edge with overlying acanthus leaves

来源

Anon. Sale, Sotheby's, London, 24 March 1976, lot 71 (sold £6,000).

展览

Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art, Claude Lorrain and the Ideal Landscape, 15 September-6 December 1998, no. 71.

注意事项

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

拍品专文

Recorded in Paris as Peintre du roi from 1644, the exact date for Swanevelt's arrival in the French capital is unknown, but a terminus ante quem is provided by the signature on this picture. Another work, also signed, dated and located to Paris in 1643 is recorded as having been in the collection of Andrea Busiri Vici (photo at the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorisches Dokumentatie, The Hague). Although the two paintings are equal in size, the horizons are on the same level and the scale of the figures is similar, the fact that both are signed and dated in full makes it unlikely that they were intended as pendants.