Landscape with Farmhouse

Artists

Dimensions

22.2 × 33 cm (8 3/4 × 13 in.) framed: 34 × 44.4 cm (13 3/8 × 17 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Possibly Sara van der Heyden [1]. I. van Idsinga, sold [through his sale, Jeronimo de Vries, Roos, Amsterdam, November 2, 1840, lot 15], to Haegrd [2]. [Etienne Le Roy, Paris and Brussels]. Charles T. Yerkes, New York, by 1904, sold [through his sale, New York, April 5-8, 1910, lot 172 as "The Old House"]. Eugene Fischoff, Paris, sold [through his sale, Lair-Dubreuil, Budoin, Paris, June 14, 1913, lot 54]; to Drimhof [3]. Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Essen, 1914 [4], by descent; to Baron Harald von Bohlen und Halbach, Essen; to his estate, 1983, sold [through Christie’s, London, December 3, 1997, lot 11]. [5, 6] [Johnny van Haeften, Ltd., London], sold; to Peter and Anne Brooke, Boston, MA, 1998, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2017 Notes [1] According to Hofstede de Groot, possibly identical with no. 7 of the pictures assigned to Sara van der Heyden (daughter of Jan van der Heyden) in the inventory of her widowed mother’s effects, May 18, 1712 (valued at 36 Florins). The corresponding inventory description reads "twe eende gejaagt van deen hond van dito." [2] From annotated version of the 1840 auction catalogue. [3] From annotated version of the 1913 auction catalogue. [4] The Krupp family archives confirmed the purchase date of 1914 with documentation. [5] The painting was seized by the Allied forces at the conclusion of the war and returned to the family in 1951. [6] According to the Christie's sale catalogue and the de Groot catalogue raisonné, the painting was sold through an anonymous sale at Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, May 20, 1919, as lot 132. However, the painting was already in the Krupp family collection in 1914 and is incorrectly listed in the Christie's catalogue. Additionally, the Muller lot description's dimensions do match those of this painting.