Sale 5903
London
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3 December 1997
Price realised
GBP 56,500
Estimate
Meindert Hobbema (1638-1709) The Ruins of Brederode Castle signed 'M. hobbema' (lower right) oil on panel 20¾ x 26¾in. (52.7 x 68cm.)
Provenance
Baron Kolisch, Vienna. Baron Königswarter; sale, Berlin, 20 Nov. 1906, lot 40 (46,000 marks).
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Literature
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné, etc., IV, London, 1912, p. 361, no. 24. G. Broulhiet, Meindert Hobbema, Paris, 1938, p. 441, no. 249, illustrated p. 341.
Brederode Castle, three miles north of Haarlem, built in the thirteenth century, was destroyed in 1573. The present picture is a very early work by the artist, whose later view of Brederode, dated 1671, is in the National Gallery, London, no. 831.
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