Lot 152: ABRAHAM BOSSCHAERT MIDDELBURG(?) 1612/13 - 1643 UTRECHT

TWO HORSES STANDING IN A WOODED LANDSCAPE, BEFORE A CAVE

measurements note
37 by 49.2 cm.; 14 1/2 by 19 3/8 in.

signed with monogram lower right: AB.

oil on oak panel

PROVENANCE

Private collection, England;
Ir.C.Th.F. Thurkow, The Hague, 1963;
Thence by descent to Mrs. W. Thurkow-van Huffel, by whom presented in 1978 to R.G.G. Vitringa;
Thence by descent, until sold, Amsterdam, Christie's, 7 May 1992, lot 95 (as by the 'Monogrammist AB');
Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 7 November 2000, lot 129 (as Attributed to Ambraham Bosschaert), where acquired by the present owner.

EXHIBITED

Dordrecht, Dordrechts Museum, Nederlandse Landschappen uit de zeventiende eeuw, 6 July - 2 September 1963, cat. no. 85, lent by Ir.C.Th.F. Thurkow (as by the 'Monogrammist AB').

LITERATURE

F.G. Meijer, "Een uitzonderlijk werk van Abraham Bosschaert (1612/12-1643)", in Oud Holland, vol. 106, 1992, no. 4, pp. 184-5, reproduced fig. 1.

NOTE

Fred G. Meijer (see Literature) identified this picture as by the still-life painter Abraham Bosschaert on the basis of a careful comparison of its monogram with those on his previously known pictures, and by comparing the still-life elements with those of these signed works.