Winter Landscape with Church and Farmhouses

Winter Landscape with Church and Farmhouses

SK-A-3329

Gezicht op een dorp aan een bevroren vaart tijdens een sneeuwbui. Donkere wolken hangen boven het dorp. Op het ijs bevinden zich kolfspelers en schaatsers. Links in de verte een kerk.

signature, with monogram, lower left (AV and DN ligated): ‘AV DN’

painter: manner of Aert van der Neer

c. 1775

oil on panel

• support: height 41.1 cm x width 53.5 cm x thickness 1 cm
• outer size: depth 7 cm (support incl. frame)

Gift of Mr and Mrs Kessler-Hülsmann, Kapelle op den Bosch

gift 1940-03

Public domain

…; ? sale, Louis Miéville (Paris), London (Christie’s), 31 March 1922, no. 92 (‘A frozen river scene: Daylight. A town on a river: Winter, with numerous figures on the ice. On Panel, 16 x 21½ [40.6 x 54.6 cm]’), £1,029, to Williams;{Copy RMA.}….; ? sale, W. Lockett Agnew, Esq., et al. [anonymous section], London (Christie’s), 15 June 1923, no. 101, £110.5, to S.J. Smith;{Copy RKD; copy RMA.}…; collection Dominicus Antonius Josephus Kessler (1855-1939) and Mrs A.C.M.H. Kessler-Hülsmann (1868-1947), Kapelle op den Bosch, near Mechelen;{Note RMA.} donated by Mrs A.C.M.H. Kessler-Hülsmann to the museum, with 83 other objects, 1940

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