Landscape with a Falconer by an Oak Tree and a Fallen Birch

Jan Wijnants (Dutch, about 1635–1684)

Medium/TechniqueOil on panel

Dimensions52.1 × 57.8 cm (20 1/2 × 22 3/4 in.)

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

Accession numberL-T 198.14.2022

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Provenance1957, "Mme. Leprince Antonie," probably Alix of Luxembourg, Mme. Le Prince Antoine de Ligne (b. 1929 - d. 2019), Brussels; November 19, 1957, anonymous (Mme. Le Prince Antoine) sale, Palais de Beaux Arts, Brussels, lot 96 [see note 1]. By 1960, private collection, Germany [see note 2]. By 1970, Herbert Girardet (b. 1910 - d. 1972), Essen [see note 3]. 1998, Charles Roelofsz (dealer), Amsterdam [see note 4]. March 1998, sold by Simon Dickinson Ltd., London, to Susan and Matthew Weatherbie, Boston.

NOTES:
[1] According to Horst Vey, Sammlung Herbert Girardet: Holländische und Flämische Meister (Rotterdam, 1970), cat. no. 71, this belonged to "Frau Leprince-Antonie," a likely corruption of Mme. Le Prince Antoine de Ligne of Belgium. Klaus Eisele, Jan Wijnants (Stuttgart, 2000), pp. 129-130, cat. no. 63, suggests that "Mme. Leprince Antonie" sold the painting at the Palais de Beaux Arts, Brussels (no date given, lot 96).

[2] See Eduard Plietzsch, Holländische und Flämische Maler des XVII. Jahrh. (Leipzig, 1960), ill. 182.

[3] Included in the exhibition "Sammlung Herbert Girardet: Holländische und Flämische Meister" (Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne and Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1970), cat. no. 71.

[4] According to Eisele 2000 (as above, note 1).