LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on silvered copper

Measurements:

4.72 in. (12.00 cm.) (height) by 6.73 in. (17.10 cm.) (width)

Literature:

C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of works by the most eminent Dutch Artists of the Seventeenth Century, London, 1927, VIII, p. 358, no. 94a, incorrectly listed as on panel. R. Fritz, Sammlung Becker, Dortmund, 1967, unpaginated, no. 70, illustrated. H. Dattenberg, Niederrheinansichten, holländischer Künstler des 17. Jahrhunderts, Düsseldorf, 1967, p. 222, no. 237, incorrectly reproduced as figs. 237a and 237b, incorrectly listed as on panel. H. Wagner, Jan van der Heyden 1637-1712, Amsterdam and Haarlem, 1971, p. 77, no. 47. P.C. Sutton, Jan van der Heyden (1637-1712), exhibition catalogue, Greenwich, Connecticut, and Amsterdam, 2006, pp. 120 and 184, under nos. 8 and 30.

Provenance:

Joseph-Eugène Schneider (1805-1875), Paris; his sale (†), Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 6 April 1876 (=1st day), lot 9, as 'with figures by A. van de Velde' (5,500 francs). Salomon Goldschmidt (1814-1898), Paris; his sale (†); Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 12 May 1898, lot 70, as 'Jan van der Heyden and Adrian van der Velde' (11,000 francs to Gauchez). Baron Edouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), Paris (inv. no. 1003). Confiscated from the above following the Nazi occupation of Paris by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg after May 1940 and transferred to the Jeu de Paume (ERR no. R 99). Recovered from Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany, from where repatriated to France on 13 November 1945 and restituted to the Rothschild Collection. with P. de Boer, Amsterdam, 1958. Dr. H. Becker, Dortmund, by 1967. Anonymous sale [Property of a Gentleman]; Sotheby's, London, 11 July 1973, lot 50, when acquired by the following, with Edward Speelman, from whom acquired by the following, Lord Samuel of Wych Cross (1912-1987), and by descent to the late owners.