Lot 198: JAN VAN DE CAPPELLE

AMSTERDAM 1625/26 - 1679
WINTER LANDSCAPE WITH A MAN FIXING A SLED AT THE EDGE OF A FROZEN RIVER
signed with monogram on the end of the log lower centre: IVC
oil on canvas
50 by 42.9 cm.; 19 5/8 by 16 7/8 in.

Glasgow, City Museum and Art Gallery, 1905, on loan;
Amsterdam, Frederick Muller and Co., 1907, no. 3;
Lucerne, Kunstmuseum, Meisterwerke aus den Sammlungen Fursten von Liechtenstein, 1948, no. 183.

C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné....., vol. VII, London 1923, pp. 199, 203, 208, nos. 147, 163a and 178;
A. Kronfeld, Führer durch die Fürstlich Liechtensteinsche Gemäldegalerie in Wien, Vienna 1931, pp. 176-177, no. 883;
W. Stechow, Dutch Landscape Painting of the Seventeenth Century, London 1966, p. 204, note. 48;
M. Russell, Jan van de Capelle 1624/6-1679, Leigh-on-Sea 1975, p.83, no. 147, reproduced fig. 93;
R. Baumstark, Meisterwerke der Sammlungen des Fürsten von Liechtenstein. Gemälde, Zürich 1980, pp. 92, 222,182.

Possibly H. Muilman, Amsterdam;
His sale, Amsterdam, 12 April 1813, lot 32;
Arthur Kay (d.1939), Glasgow;
His sale, London, Christie's, 11 May 1901, lot 18 (unsold);
Acquired in Amsterdam by Prince Johann II of Liechtenstein (1840-1929) for 3,900 florins.