Lot 42: A burning city by a river with figures fleeing in the foreground

Dirck Verhaert (Haarlem? c. 1610-c. 1680 Leiden?)
A burning city by a river with figures fleeing in the foreground
signed 'D. V. H.' (centre below)
oil on panel
40.2 x 60.6 cm.

Anonymous sale; Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, 6 December 1946, as V. Heil (according to a label on reverse).

Christie's charge a premium to the buyer on the final bid price of each lot sold at the following rates: 23.8% of the final bid price of each lot sold up to and including €400,000 and 14.28% of any amount in excess of €400,000. Buyers' premium is calculated on the basis of each lot individually.
We are grateful to Mrs. Marijke de Kinkelder of the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague for confirming the attribution (written communication, 23 March 2007).