Live Auction 20686Old Masters Part II: Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings and Watercolours
JAN VAN DER HEYDEN (GORINCHEM 1637-1712 AMSTERDAM)
Lot 122 PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

JAN VAN DER HEYDEN (GORINCHEM 1637-1712 AMSTERDAM)

A rural landscape, with figures conversing

Closed8 December 2023

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JAN VAN DER HEYDEN (GORINCHEM 1637-1712 AMSTERDAM)
A rural landscape, with figures conversing
oil on panel
7 1⁄8 x 9 3⁄8 in. (18 x 23.7 cm.)

with Thomas Agnews & Sons, Liverpool.
Anonymous sale [The Property of a Gentleman]; Christie's, London, 18 June 1892, lot 100 (53 gns. to Martin Colnaghi on behalf of the following),
Stephenson Robert Clarke (1862-1948), Marylebone, London, and by descent to the present owner.

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Preserved in the same family collection for over 140 years, this charming unpublished panel by Jan van der Heyden exemplifies the artist’s lesser-known talent for producing charming, rural scenes on an intimate scale. Typically celebrated for his grand townscapes, this work is a rare addition to his oeuvre. Using a tonal, expertly-handled colour palette, van der Heyden pays the same attention to the depiction of natural, rustic textures in the paths, grass and trees as he does to the intricate architectural details in his larger compositions.

A comparable arrangement of paths and country roads, painted from a similar viewpoint, appears in a work of circa 1666-8 at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt.