Live Auction 2511Old Master & 19th Century Paintings, Drawings & Watercolors Part II
François van Knibbergen (The Hague 1597-1665/50 Amsterdam)
Lot 136 PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF MAX STERN

François van Knibbergen (The Hague 1597-1665/50 Amsterdam)

An extensive landscape with a walled city and travelers

Closed26 January 2011

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François van Knibbergen (The Hague 1597-1665/50 Amsterdam)
An extensive landscape with a walled city and travelers
traces of a signature (lower center) and with remains of a signature and date 'OYEN 16' (lower right)
oil on canvas
29 x 38 in. (73.6 x 96.5 cm.)

Dr. Martin Schubart, Dresden, by 1893; his sale, Galerie Hugo Helbing, Munich, 23 October 1899, lot. 34.
with Galerie Stern, Düsseldorf, 1937.
Sold under duress due to persecution by the National Socialists.
Sale, Lempertz, Cologne, 11 November 1964, lot 104 (8,000 DM).
Private Collection, Germany, by 1968.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 9 May 2007, lot 1, as 'Follower of Jan van Goyen' (withdrawn).
Restituted to the Estate of Max Stern, 2007.

Specialist note

We are grateful to Marijke C. de Kinkelder, of the RKD in The Hague, for providing the attribution on the basis of photographs (private communication, 13 December 2010).