Lot 169: JAN MARTSZEN THE YOUNGER

JAN MARTSZEN THE YOUNGER HAARLEM CIRCA 1609 - AFTER 1647 CAVALIERS SURVEYING THE AFTERMATH OF A BATTLE signed and dated lower right: JM. D Jonge 1629 ( JM in ligature) oil on oak panel 17.5 by 24 cm.; 6 3/4 by 9 1/2 in.

Kassel, Staatliche Museen, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, inv. L. 1131, on loan.

S. Körffer, in E. Mai (ed.), Das Kabinett des Sammlers. Gemälde vom XV. bis XVIII. Jahrhundert, Cologne 1993, p. 178, no. 71, reproduced in colour.

With Johnny van Haeften, London, 1991;
From whom bought by the late husband of the present owner.

This is a characteristic early work by Jan Martsen, painted under the influence of Esaias van de Velde. A pair of comparable pictures, on panels of similar size, signed and dated 1630, are in the collection of L.M.H. Bremers (see M.P. van Maarseveen (et al), Beelden van een strijd, exhibition catalogue, Zwolle 1998, pp. 304-5, nos. 83 & 84, reproduced).