Landscape with an Elegant Hunting Party on a Stag Hunt

Nicolaes Claas Pietersz. Berchem (Dutch, 1620–1683)

about 1665-70

Medium/TechniqueOil on panel

Dimensions38.1 x 48.6 cm (15 x 19 1/8 in.)
Framed: 55.6 x 65.1 x 8.3 cm (21 7/8 x 25 5/8 x 3 1/4 in.)

Credit LineGift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art

Accession number2017.4190

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ProvenanceBy 1752, Johannes Lubbeling (Lublink), Amsterdam [see note 1]. November 25, 1778, Jacob Simonsz. Crammer estate sale, Van der Schley, Amsterdam, lot 2, sold for fl. 335 to Pierre Fouquet, Jr. (b. 1729 – d. 1800), Amsterdam [see note 2]; April 13, 1801, Pierre Fouquet Jr. estate sale, Van der Schley, Amsterdam, lot 3, sold for 460 fl. to Louis-Bernard Coclers (b. 1740 – d. 1817). Auguste-Louis-César-Hipolite-Théodore de Lespinasse de Langeac, comte d’Arlet (d. 1814); January 16-18, 1809, Lespinasse de Langeac sale, Paillet and Delaroche, Paris, lot 14, sold for ffr. 2,410 to Bon-Thomas Henry (dealer; b. 1766 – d. 1836). Casimir Pierre Périer (b. 1777 - d. 1832), Paris; May 5, 1848, Périer estate sale, Christie and Manson, London, lot 1, bought back by the family; probably by inheritance to his son, August Casimir Périer (b. 1811 - d. 1876); by inheritance to his sister, Marie-Thérèse Casimir-Périer (b. 1844 - d. 1916), Comtesse de Ségur-Périer, Paris; until 1992, by descent within the family; December 11, 1992, anonymous (Périer family) sale, Audap, Godeau, Solanet, Paris, lot 47. 1993, sold by Bob P. Haboldt and Co., New York and Paris, to Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo, Marblehead, MA; 2017, gift of Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 14, 2017)

NOTES:
[1] According to Gerard Hoet, Catalogus of Naamlyst van schilderyen, met derzelver pryzen zeedert een langen reeks van jaaren zoo in Holland als op andere plaatzen in het openbaar verkogt, vol. 2 (The Hague, 1752). Possibly Johannes Lublink II (b. 1736 - d. 1816), philosopher, writer and statesman.

[2] According to the 1992 Audap, Godeau, Solanet auction catalogue.