Lot 84: JACOB SIBRANDI MANCADAN MINNERTSGA 1602 - 1680 TJERKGAAST

signed with monogram centre left: JM (in ligature)

oil on canvas

103 by 151 cm.

M. Laferte, Jacobus Sibrandi Mancadan (1602-1680), thesis University of Groningen 2000, cat. no. 9.

Chanoine Barbier, Nancy;
His sale, Brussels, Fievez, 12 June 1912, lot 136 (as Pieter Molijn);
Harald Petrie, Antwerp;
His sale, Amsterdam, Fred. Muller, 30 November 1926, lot 82, sold to Goudstikker for Fl. 1.800;
With Kunstzaal Kleijkamp, The Hague, 1930 (cat. no. 21);
R. Liffers, The Hague;
By whom sold, Berlin, Leo Spik, 10 June 1942, lot 17;
Unidentified sale, lot 21 (according to a note on a photograph in R.K.D.).

The Frisian painter Mancadan was also burgomaster of Franeker in the 1630s. He painted landscapes in a highly distinctive and idiosyncratic style, which may reflect his relative isolation from artistic trends in the larger Dutch cities. His style paraphrases the Dutch Italianates, placing herders and animals in fantastic landscapes which are neither Dutch nor Mediterranean, sometimes with ruins that hint at the antique, often with outsized geological features, the whole lit by a grey northern light. Late in his career he also painted a few mythological subjects. This picture is one of his largest paintings.