Lot 70: JACOB JACOBSZ. VAN GEEL

JACOB JACOBSZ. VAN GEEL ?MIDDELBURG 1584/5 - ? DELFT AFTER 1638 A TREE TRUNK IN A LANDSCAPE oil on panel 11.4 by 8.9 cm.

Han Jüngeling, The Hague, where bought by the present owner in 1967,
Then sold to Bert van Deun, Beerse, Belgium in 1990;
Bought back from Bert van Deun's estate in 2009.

A related composition on a small round panel (diameter 15.8 cm.), with the inclusion of two figures on a path, is in the Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht (inv. no. 960/72), and has been dated by L.J. Bol to circa 1636.υ1 A similar date can be suggested for the present lot.

Letters to the present owner from Horst Gerson (dated 20 December 1967) and Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann (dated 3 January 1968) confirm the attribution to Van Geel.

1. See P. Marijnissen (ed.), De Zichtbaere Werelt, schilderkunst uit de Gouden Eeuw in Hollands oudste stad, exhibition catalogue, Zwolle 1992, pp. 160-1, cat. no. 33, reproduced, p. 161.