Hans Bol, Winter Landscape; a sad colf player can be found at the lower right corner. C. 1585

Winter Landscape with Skaters, (a sad colf player can be found at the lower left corner), c 1585, by Hans Bol (c. 1584 - c 1586)

Pen and brown ink and wash on laid paper. Overall: 19.3 x 26.9 cm (7 5/8 x 10 9/16 in.).By later hand, lower left in brown ink: Hans Bol; upper left in brown ink: 8; lower right verso in graphite: No27 / Bol, Hans; center verso in graphite: 7

Provenance

• Heinrich Wilhelm Campe [1770-1862] (Lugt 1391)

• Dr. Carlos Gaa; (his sale, Boerner, Leipzig, 9-10 May 1910, no. 56)

• Koutuzow collection. (Schaeffer Galleries, New York)

• J. Theodor Cremer, New York; (his sale, Sotheby Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 17 November 1980, no. 96). Robert H. and Clarice Smith; gift 1991 to NGA

Literature

• 1986 - Hand et al. 1986, 15.

• 1991 - Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991: p.32.

• 1995 - Wheelock, Arthur K., Jr. Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, 1995:

National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA (1991.15.1)