Master Paintings & Sculpture: 1300–1900

Master Paintings & Sculpture: 1300–1900

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Property from a Private Collection, Florida

Hendrick Avercamp

Winter Scene with Skaters on a Frozen River

Live auction begins on:

May 22, 02:00 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Bid

28,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, Florida

Hendrick Avercamp

Amsterdam 1585–1634 Kampen

Winter Scene with Skaters on a Frozen River


signed and dated center left on the tree: HA 1609

oil on panel

panel: 11 ½ by 17 ⅝ in.; 29.2 by 44.8 cm

Paul Delaroff (1852-1913), St. Petersburg;

His estate sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 23 April 1914, lot 15;

Where acquired by "Sortais" for 500 francs;

With Galerie Matthiesen, Berlin, by 1928;

Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza (1875-1947), Schloss Rohoncz, by 1930;

Thence by descent to Baroness Gabrielle Thyssen-Bentinck (1915-1999), Paris, by 1956;

With Galerie J.R. Bier, Haarlem, by 1962;

Anonymous sale ("The Property of an Estate bequeathed to the Weizmann Institute of Science"), London, Sotheby's, 10 July 1974, lot 120;

Linda and Gerald Guterman, New York;

Their sale, New York, Sotheby's, 14 January 1988, lot 2;

Where acquired by Carol Browning and Edmund Wattis Dumke;

By whose estate sold ("The Estate of Carol Browning and Edmund Wattis Dumke"), New York, Christie's, 23 May 2024, lot 21;

Where acquired by the present collectors.

C.J. Welcker, Hendrick Avercamp, 1585-1634; Barent Avercamp, 1612-1679: Schilders tot Campen, Doornspijk 1933, cat. no. 4, reproduced plate VIII, fig. XXI;

E. Haverkamp-Begemann, Willem Buytewech, Amsterdam 1959, p. 39;

W. Stechow, "Significant Dates on some Seventeenth Century Dutch Landscape Paintings," in Oud Holland 75 (1960), pp. 80-83, reproduced fig. 2;

W. Stechow, Dutch Landscape Painting of the Seventeenth Century, London 1966, p. 85, reproduced fig. 166;

C.J. Welcker, Hendrick Avercamp, 1585-1634; Barent Avercamp, 1612-1679: Schilders tot Campen, Doornspijk 1979, p. 203, cat. no. 4, reproduced plate VIII, fig. XXI;

A. Blankert, Frozen Silence: Paintings from Museums and Private Collections, Amsterdam 1982, pp. 26, 74-75, cat. no. 2, reproduced;

W. Liedtke, The Golden Ambiance: Dutch Landscape Painting in the Seventeenth Century, New York 1985, cat. no. 4, reproduced;

P. Roelofs, Hendrick Avercamp: Master of the Ice Scene, Amsterdam 2009, pp. 44-45, reproduced fig. 34.

Munich, Neue Pinakothek, Sammlung Schloss Rohoncz Gemälde, 1930, no. 10;

Haarlem, J. R. Bier, Hollandse 17de eeuwse meesters, 1962, no. 1;

New York, Minskoff Cultural Center, The Golden Ambiance: Dutch Landscape Painting in the Seventeenth Century, 1985.