Barent Avercamp

Skaters, kolf players and elegant figures with horse-drawn sleighs on a frozen river by a tower

Guaranteed Property

Auction Closed

December 7, 07:07 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 400,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Grasset Collection

Barent Avercamp

Kampen 1612/13 - 1679

Skaters, kolf players and elegant figures with horse-drawn sleighs on a frozen river by a tower

signed with the end of the brush 'wet-in-wet' lower centre: AVERCAMP (AVE in ligature)

oil on oak panel

30.8 x 55 cm.; 12⅛x 21⅝in.

---------------------------------------------------

格拉塞特典藏

巴倫特・阿弗坎普

坎彭，1612/13 - 1679年

《塔樓旁結冰河面上的溜冰者、考爾夫球手與坐在馬拉雪橇的紳士淑女》

款識︰藝術家簽名AVERCAMP（中下，AVE為相連字體）

油彩橡木畫板

30.8 x 55 公分；12 ⅛ x 21 ⅝ 英寸

Charles Auguste Louis Joseph Duc de Morny (1811–1865) (according to an inscription on an old label on the reverse stating that the painting was 'acheté 1600 francs à la vente du Duc de Morny');

Anonymous sale ('The Property of a Lady of Title'), London, Sotheby's, 21 April 1982, lot 6, for £56,000 to Van Dedem;

William Baron van Dedem, London (1929–2015);

With Noortman and Brod, Maastricht, 1982;

Anonymous sale ('The Property of a Gentleman'), London, Christie's, 11 December 1984, lot 108, for £85,000;

Where acquired for the Grasset Collection.

F.G. Meijer in Brueghel to Canaletto, European Masterpieces from the Grasset Collection, exh. cat. San Diego, 2016, p. 18, no. 13, reproduced in colour;

S. Thomas, in A Feast for the Eyes, European Masterpieces from the Grasset Collection, exh. cat. Saint Petersburg, Florida, 2019, pp. 23, 94, no. 5, reproduced in colour.