A Winter Landscape with Skaters and Kolf Players

Jan van de Cappelle (Dutch, 1626–1679)

1653

Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas

Dimensions48.3 × 55.9 cm (19 × 22 in.)
Framed: 64.1 × 72.4 cm (25 1/4 × 28 1/2 in.)

Credit LinePromised gift of Susan and Matthew Weatherbie, in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art

Accession numberL-T 198.1.2022

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ClassificationsPaintings

Collections

Europe

ProvenanceBy 1857, John Henderson (b. 1797 - d. 1878), London [see note 1]; February 16, 1882, posthumous Henderson sale, Christie, Manson and Woods, London, lot 393 to John Lewis Rutley (dealer; b. 1836 - d. 1921), London, for £257. Jean-Louis Mieville (b. 1808 - d. 1897), London; April 29, 1899, posthumous Mieville sale, Christie’s, London, lot 57, sold to Colnaghi for £483. By 1909, Peter Arrell Brown Widener (b. 1834 - d. 1915), Elkins Park, Philadelphia [see note 2]; by descent to his son, Joseph E. Widener (b. 1871 - d. 1943), Philadelphia; January 1923, sold by Widener to M. Knoedler and Co., New York (stock no. 15508); sold by Knoedler to Frederik Muller and Co., Amsterdam [see note 3]; July 10, 1923, P. A. B. Widener and others sale, Frederik Muller and Co., Amsterdam, lot 107, sold for fl. 11,600. 1932, private collection [see note 4]. August 1935, sold by Paul Bottenwieser (dealer), Berlin, to Schaeffer Galleries, New York (stock no. 634) [see note 5]; December 22, 1943, one-third share sold by Schaeffer to Rudolf Heinemann (b. 1901 - d. 1975) for for his gallery, Pinakos, Inc.; passed to the personal collection of Rudolf Heinemann and Lore Heinemann (d. 1996), New York; July 4, 1997, posthumous Heinemann sale, Christie's, London, lot 16, bought in. March 2002, sold by Hall and Knight, Ltd., New York, to Susan and Matthew Weatherbie, Boston.

NOTES:
[1] G. F. Waagen, Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain (London: John Murray, 1857), p. 207.

[2] Widener lent this painting to the exhibition "The Hudson-Fulton Celebration" (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1909), cat. no. 4.

[3] Knoedler stock book entry, September 27, 1923. Getty Provenance Index, M. Knoedler and Co. Records, PI Record No. K-24305 (stock book 7, no. 15508).

[4] Lent to "Tentoonstelling van Hollandsche Winterlandschappen uit de 17e Eeuw" (exh. cat., J. Goudstikker, Amsterdam, March 10-20, 1932), cat. no. 23.

[5] Possibly sold with or through Seligmann, whose name is annotated in the Schaeffer Galleries records (Getty Research Institute, Series IIa, Sales Records, box 40; and see stock card, series IB, Artworks, box 10). The painting was included in the exhibition "The Great Dutch Masters" (Schaeffer Galleries, New York, December 1-30, 1936), cat. no. 3.