Lot 136: Aert van der Neer (Amsterdam ?1603/4-1677)

Aert van der Neer (Amsterdam ?1603/4-1677)
A winter landscape with skaters by a village
signed with initials 'AV DN' ('AV' and 'DN' linked, lower left)
oil on panel
13½ x 17 5/8 in. (34.3 x 44.7 cm.)

Amsterdam, Galerie Goudstikker, Hollandsche Winterlandschappen uit de XVIIe eeuw, 6-29 February 1932, no. 56, as in 'Particulier bezit'.

W. Schulz, Aert van der Neer, Doornspijk, 2002, p. 181, no. 188.

with Knoedler, London and New York, 1921, inv. no. 13914 (according to a file in the Witt Library, Courtauld Institute, the Knoedler stock number on the reverse).
Anonymous sale; Galerie Dr. Gottschewski & Dr. Schäffer, Berlin, 6-30 November 1927.
with Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam, 1932, as in 'Particulier bezit'.
Anonymous sale; Fischer, Lucerne, 14-21 November 1978, lot 1856.

THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTOR

Published as 'probably autograph' by Dr. Wolfgang Schulz in his 2002 monograph on the artist, we are grateful to him for recently confirming a full attribution, on the basis of photographs.