Italian Landscape with Mule Driver

Italian Landscape with Mule Driver

SK-C-110

signature, lower right (J and B ligated): ‘JBoth’

Jan Both (c. 1615 - 1652). Italian landscape with mule driver, c. 1650. Trees and mountains, caught by the rays of the sun, determine the atmosphere in Both's Italianizing landscapes. Bequest of A. van der Hoop, 1854. On loan from the city of Amsterdam, 1885.

painter: Jan Both (mentioned on object)

c. 1645 - c. 1650

olieverf op paneel

height 37.2 cm x width 50.1 cm

On loan from the City of Amsterdam (A. van der Hoop Bequest)

Public domain

…; ? sale, Catharina Bullens († 1777), widow of Justus Oosterdijk (c. 1707-1773/76, Amsterdam), Amsterdam (J. Posthumus et al.), 23 July 1777, no. 4 (`Een ongemeene warme Avondstond, zynde een bergachtig Landschap waar in uitmuntende Stoffagie van Beeldjes en Beesjes, […] Hoog 14½ duim, breet 19½ duim [36.3 x 48.8 cm], P.´), fl. 450, to Hope;{Copy RKD; Buvelot in Q. Buvelot, M. Hilaire and O. Zeder, _Tableaux flamands et hollandais du Musée Fabre de Montpellier_, coll. cat. Montpellier 1998, p. 275.}…; sale, H.G. Oosterdijk (1731-1795, Amsterdam) and H.A. van den Heuvel (†, Utrecht), Amsterdam (P. van der Schley et al.), 8 October 1800, no. 1, as J. and A. Both (`hoog 15, breed 20 duim [37.5 x 50 cm], paneel. Een behaaglijk boomrijk en zonachtig Landschap, met een bergachtig verschiet, de voorgrond gestoffeerd met een Man op een Ezel, en een Jongen met een Os […]´), fl. 485, to B. Kooij;{Copy RKD; Buvelot in Q. Buvelot, M. Hilaire and O. Zeder, _Tableaux flamands et hollandais du Musée Fabre de Montpellier_, coll. cat. Montpellier 1998, p. 275.}…; sale, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince de Bénévent (1754-1838, Paris), Paris (C.P. Henry et al.), 9 July 1817, no. 6 (`Bois. Hauteur 14 pouces, largeur 18 pouces 6 lignes [37.9 x 50.1 cm]. Vue prise dans un pays montagneux. Au milieu et sur la droite du spectateur se groupent ensemble plusieurs grands arbres qui croissent aux deux côtés d´une butte, parmi des broussailles et des rochers. A gauche est un chemin tournant où passent, en se croisant, un valet de ferme menant une vache, et un autre villageois conduisant deux mulets, sur l´un desquels il est affourché. On aperçoit plus loin un troisième personnage. Au-delà de ces objets sont plusieurs éminences couvertes de bois et aboutissant à des montagnes lointaines. […]´), with the rest of the collection, fr. 360,000, to the dealer William Buchanan, {W. Buchanan, _Memoirs of Painting: With a Chronological History of the Importation of Pictures by the Great Masters into England since the French Revolution_, II, London 1824, p. 320.} no. 6, valued at fr. 4,000,{Copy RKD.} fr. 4,650,{Copy Hermitage; GPI, F-536.} and 150 gns,{W. Buchanan, _Memoirs of Painting: With a Chronological History of the Importation of Pictures by the Great Masters into England since the French Revolution_, II, London 1824, p. 320.} to Gray and Allnut;{J. Smith, _A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters_, VI, London 1835, p. 178, no. 19.}…; sale, James-Alexandre (1776-1855, Paris), Comte de Pourtalès-Gorgier et al., London (H. Phillips), 19 May 1826 _sqq._, no. 49 (`A grand mountainous Landscape, intersected by a winding road, on which are passing a peasant with two mules, and a boy driving a cow; opposite to which are masses of trees […] from the collection of the Prince Talleyrand´), 205 gns, to Maud of Bath;{GPI, Br-12626.} anonymous sale, Bath (auction house not known), 1828, 250 gns;{J. Smith, _A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters_, VI, London 1835, p. 178, no. 19. The sale catalogue has not been located.}…; ? sale, Alexis Delahante et al., London (H. Phillips), 29 June 1830 _sqq._, no. 82 (`A singularly rich and beautifully composed Landscape and Figures, with effect of Evening, when Sun is retiring behind the distant mountainous scenery […] formerly adorned the gallery of Prince Talleyrand´), £357, to Ramsay, or bought in;{GPI, Br-13238.}…; purchased for 160 gns by the dealer John Smith, London, 1833;{J. Smith, _A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters_, VI, London 1835, p. 178, no. 19.} from whom, fl. 2,000, to Adriaan van der Hoop (1778-1854), Amsterdam, 1833;{_Lijst van schilderijen, beelden en teekeningen van Adriaan van der Hoop te Amsterdam_, NHA, ARS, no. 388 (copy in Rijksmuseum Research Library), p. 6, no. 63: `Een landschap door Both van idem [John Smith]´.} by whom bequeathed to the City of Amsterdam, with 223 other paintings, 1854;{_Taxatie van schilderijen, teekeningen en beeldhouwwerken gedaan door Pieter E.H. Praetorius en Gerrit de Vries Jz., executeuren van het testament van A. van der Hoop [...] 29 april 1854_, NHA, ARS, no. 388 (copy in Rijksmuseum Research Library), p. 1, no. 63: `Boomrijk landschap met in vallend zonlicht´.} on loan from the City of Amsterdam to the museum since 30 June 1885{Provenance from 1817 to the present reconstructed in A. Pollmer, `Catalogus van de schilderijen in de verzameling van Adriaan van der Hoop´, in E. Bergvelt et al., _De Hollandse meesters van een Amsterdamse bankier: De verzameling van Adriaan van der Hoop (1778-1854)_, exh. cat. Amsterdam (Amsterdams Historisch Museum; Rijksmuseum) 2004-05, pp. 135-95, esp. p. 141, no. 21.}

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