Lot 59: f - Dirck van der Lisse The Hague 1607 - 1669 , Diana and Actaeon

oil on panel

measurements note 55.9 by 85 cm.

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum, lent by J. Paul Getty (according to a label on the reverse).

Possibly Danton Guerault, until 1938;
By whom (anonymously) sold(?), London, Christie's, 25 July 1938, lot 99 (as by Cornelis Poelenburgh), together with another work representing The discovery of Calisto, to J. Paul Getty (for 15.15 Pounds);
J. Paul Getty, Sutton Place, Surrey, donated to the J. Paul Getty Museum in 1970 (inv. no. 70.PB.9).

SOLD BY THE J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM TO BENEFIT FUTURE PAINTING ACQUISITIONS

Although previously attributed to Cornelis van Poelenburch (1594/5-1667), Horst Gerson was the first who (verbally) suggested the attribution to Van der Lisse in 1964.

This painting is evidently related to a composition by Poelenburch in the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen (inv. no. 549), which is signed and dated 1659.[1] A signed version of the same scene by Van der Lisse is in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. [2]

[1] W. Stechow, Dutch Landscape Painting of the Seventeenth Century, London 1966, reproduced p. 291.
[2] inv. no. II 463; see W. Bernt, Die Niederländischen Maler und Zeichner des 17. Jahrhunderts, Munich 1980, vol. II, no. 742, reproduced.