Peasants driving their cattle and sheep into a cave in an Italianate landscape

Details

Jan Frans Soolmaker (? 1635-after 1665 Amsterdam)
Peasants driving their cattle and sheep into a cave in an Italianate landscape
signed 'J.F. Soolmaker f' (lower right)
oil on panel
42.1 x 53.6 cm.

Provenance

For 40 years in the collection of the family of the present owner.

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Lot Essay

The present composition shows similarities with two other pictures by Jan Frans Soolmaker; a signed panel formerly in the collection of Alfred Havanith, offered in Paris 10 November 1913, lot 18; the other on canvas, last recorded in Museum Brukenthal, Hermannstadt (Sibiu), Romania.

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