(1603 - Amsterdam - 1677)
“Moonlit Landscape with Fishermen mending their Nets on a Riverbank”
Oil on panel: 31,5 x 47,5 cm;
signed with monogram ‘AVDN. interlinked (l.r.)
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Expertise & Literature
- Dendrochonological research Dr Peter Klein, Hamburg, of 24 January 1997: earliest felling date is 1631, painted from 1637 onwards.
- Hofstede de Groot, no. 405 (as authentic);
- Wadsworth Atheneum Bulletin, November 1946, pp. 1, 3;
- Wadsworth Atheneum ‘Wadsworth Atheneum Paintings’, Cat. 1, ‘The Netherlands and German speaking Countries, 15th to 19th centuries’, Hartford 1978, p. 167, no. 100, pl. 102 (as Aert van der Neer (circle));
- Dr. Wolfgang Schulz, ‘Aert van der Neer’, Davaco Publishers, 2002, cat. no. 1265, p. 438: “A thorough cleaning in 1996 revealed the quality of this painting, but its authenticity remains questionable”.
Provenance
- Sale Christies London ca 1920-1925
- with Fritz Mont; Julius Kein, Vienna
- Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna, 1937
- Schaeffer Gallery, New York
- acquired in 1946 for the Sumner collection by the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, USA (no. 1946.371)
- with Douwes Fine Art, by 1997, exhibited at TEFAF 1997
- sold to a private Dutch collection, where it has remained up to the present.