Lot 105: Attributed to Adam van Breen (?Amsterdam c. 1585-c. 1645 Noorwegen)

Attributed to Adam van Breen (?Amsterdam c. 1585-c. 1645 Noorwegen)
A winter landscape with elegant skaters on a frozen lake, a town beyond
oil on panel
19½ x 34 1/8 in. (49.5 x 86.7 cm.)

with Leonard Koetser Gallery, London, 1970, as 'Adriaen Pietersz. van de Venne'.

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The Rijksmuseum has a painting of this composition (with minor differences, 55.1 x 111.7 cm.) that is signed with Adam van Breen's monogram (see J. Bikker, et al., Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 2007, I, p. 86, no. 33).