Lot 50: A traveler on a path by a waterfall in an Italianate landscape, a fortress beyond

Gerard van Edema Amsterdam or Friesland c. 1652-c. 1700 Richmond
A traveler on a path by a waterfall in an Italianate landscape, a fortress beyond
signed 'G. Edema' (on the rock, lower center)
oil on canvas, unlined
25¼ x 29 7/8 in. 64.1 x 75.9 cm.

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 2 August 1974, lot 226, as 'Gerard Edema'.
Dr. & Mrs. Robert H. Mason, by whom gifted to
the Tampa Museum of Art, 1981.

PROPERTY FROM THE TAMPA MUSEUM OF ART SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ACQUISITIONS FUND

No sales tax is due on the purchase price of this lot if it is picked up or delivered in the State of New York.
After training in Amsterdam under Allert van Everdingen, Gerard van Edema traveled to London around 1670 where he found a market for his landscapes with awe-inspiring mountains, steep precipices, rocky gorges, torrential rivers and cascades overwhelming the diminutive presence of man. He found particular favor with English aristocratic collectors such as the Earl of Sunderland, the Duke of Schomberg, the Earl of Radnor and Lord Ranelagh.