Lot 189: PHILIPS KONINCK AMSTERDAM 1619 - 1688

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION FORMED BY THE LATE MR. ENRICO FATTORINI, LATELY THE PROPERTY OF HIS DAUGHTER, MRS. A.E. ROACH. SOLD BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES.

A PANORAMIC RIVER LANDSCAPE WITH DROVERS IN THE FOREGROUND

measurements note
58.5 by 78 cm.; 23 by 30 3/4 in.

brushed on the reverse in an old hand: MB 133 (MB in ligature)

oil on panel

PROVENANCE

Talbot collection, Margam Castle (purchased in 1836 as Rembrandt);
Margam Castle sale, London, Christie's, 29 October 1941, lot 399 (as Rembrandt);
Enrico Fattorini, Bradford;
Thence by descent.

EXHIBITED

Liverpool, City School of Art, Exhibition of Works by Dutch Masters of the 17th Century, 1944, no. 17 (as Hercules Seghers);
London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Dutch Painting of the 17th Century, 1945, no. 34 (as Seghers);
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Dutch Painters 1450-1750, Winter Exhibition 1952-53, no. 280 (as Philips Koninck).

NOTE

This unpublished picture would appear to be an early work, painted while Koninck was still strongly influenced by Rembrandt. By comparison with similar landscapes in Manchester, City Art Gallery, dated 1648, and New York, Metropolitan Museum, dated 1649, a date in the very late 1640s or circa 1650 seems plausible for this picture, as Werner Sumowski has kindly confirmed (see W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, Landau/Pfalz 1983, vol.III, pp. 1544-5, nos. 1044, 1046, reproduced pp.1594, 1596).

When this picture was last cleaned, the faint outline of the head and shoulders of a boy was detectable in the sky. Werner Sumowski has kindly informed us that he believes this may be the same model depicted in a work signed and dated 1650 formerly in the A. Schloss collection, Paris (op. cit., p. 1539, no. 1016, reproduced p.1566). This provides further evidence for a dating of the Fattorini picture circa 1650.