Lot 67: Jacob de Wit Amsterdam 1695 - 1754 , A set of four sopraporte with putti playing, representing the four seasons all oil on canvas, en grisaille

one (Winter) signed and dated lower right: J: d Wit / 1733 F, all oil on canvas, en grisaille Quantity: 4

each circa 56 by 143 cm.

Kunsthandel van Rossum, exhibition at PAN Amsterdam, October 1997.

Commissioned for the garden pavilion of the house Bosch en Hoven in 1733;
Two of the four sold London, Sotheby's, 4 July 1990, cat. no. 27 (as a pair);
With Van Rossum, by 1997.

This set of four overdoors were painted for the pavilion in the garden of the house Bosch en Hoven on the River Vecht. The house was subsequently destroyed but the pavilion was rebuilt in Aerdenhout, where only the trompe l'oeils of Winter and Summer were reinstalled. The series was reunited again at the PAN Amsterdam in October 1997.
(the 4th illustrated on page 51)