Aert van der Neer, Winter Landscape with Skaters and Colf Players on a frozen river near a Village

Oil on canvas. 70 x 100.5 cm / 27 1/2  x 39 1/2  in.

Auctions

• Sotheby’s, Old Masters, 3 May 2017, 10:30 AM BST, Lot no 109 Property from an private Irish Collection . Estimate 7,000 - 10,000 GBP; Sold 12,500 GBP

Provenance

• Mrs Szyazka, Berlin;

• Sir George Donaldson;

• With Kunsthandel J. Goudstikker N.V., Amsterdam, 1932;

• The Rt. Hon Viscount Lee of Fareham;

• By whom sold, London, Christie's, 28 June 1929, lot 34, for £ 1700, to Agnew;

• With Thomas Agnew and Sons, London, by whom advertised in The Burlington Magazine, May 1935;

• Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 27 November 1963, lot 60, for £1,600 to Goyen.

Exhibitions

• Amsterdam, Kunsthandel J. Goudstikker N.V., Tentoonstelling van Hollandsche Winterlandschappen, 6–9 February 1932, no. 46;

• Dordrecht, Dordrecht Museum, Nederlandse Landschappen uit de 17de Euew, July – August 1963, no. 91. 

Literature

• Kunsthandel J. Goudstikker N.V., Tentoonstelling van Hollandsche Winterlandschappen, exh. cat., Amsterdam 1932, cat. no. 46;

• J. Nieuwstraten, 'Dutch landscapes at Dordrecht', Apollo, 1963, vol. 79, no. 19, pp. 226–27, cat. no. 184, reproduced;

• W. Schulz, Aert van der Neer, Doornspijk 2002, p. 175, cat. no. 166 (as Van der Neer).