Lot 170: Anthonie van Borssom (Amsterdam c. 1629-1677)

A shepherd with cattle and sheep by a tower in a panoramic landscape
oil on canvas
25 1/8 x 31 7/8 in. (63.8 x 81 cm.)

Cape Town, National Gallery of South Africa, as 'Attributed to Adriaen van de Velde'.

Mr. and Mrs. Spoel.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 29 May 1981, lot 7.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 19 March 1982, lot 28.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 21 May 1992, lot 82.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 8 December 1995, lot 265.

THE PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN COLLECTOR (LOTS 168, 170, 172, 188, 192 AND 222)

We are grateful to Marijke de Kinkelder of the RKD for confirming the attribution on the basis of a transparency. She compares the picture to two similar panoramic views, both signed, one of which is in the Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf (see Bettina Baumgärtel, Ein Fest der Malerei. Die niederländischen und flämischen Gemälde des 16.-18. Jahrhunderts. Bestandskatalog der Gemäldesammlung museum kunst palast, Sammlung der Kunstakadamie Düsseldorf, Leipzig, 2005, pp. 48-9), and the other sold at Sotheby's, London, 11 December 1985, lot 198.

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