Lot 221: Franciscus Xaverius Xavery (The Hague 1740-after 1772 Rotterdam)

Franciscus Xaverius Xavery (The Hague 1740-after 1772 Rotterdam)
An Italianate landscape with a peasant family in a thunder storm
signed 'F. Xavery. f' (lower left)
oil on panel, unframed
58.4 x 59.8 cm.

Anonymous sale; De Waart, The Hague, 8 December 1964, lot 175.
Anonymous sale; Van Marle & Bignell, The Hague, May 1965.
Anonymous sale; Philips, London, 1 July 1997, lot 102, as 'Jacob Savery' (£7,500).
Anonymous sale; Hampel, Munich, 3-4 December 2004, lot 669.

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