Skaters and ‘Kolf’ Players on a frozen Waterway

AERT VAN DER NEER

Gorinchem 1604-1677 Amsterdam

Oil on panel 33,6 x 49 cm.
Signed lower right with monogram ‘AV DN’

Provenance
Collection Arnoud van den Lennep
His deceased sale, Amsterdam, 24 July 1792, as lot 67 (30 fl. To Van der Schley)
Collection of Henry, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne (1780-1863), Bowood House, and by descent to
Collection of Henry, 6th Marquess of Lansdowne (1872-1936), to
Collection Lady Nairne, London
With Agnew’s, London, by 1991
Anonymous sale, Christie’s, London, 8 December 1995, as lotno. 21 ‘collection of a Noblewoman’ (£ 200.000-300.000, withdrawn)
With Johnny van Haetfen Ltd., London, by whom exhibited at TEFAF, Maastricht 2013 (ref. VP4609), where acquired by
Private collection, The Netherlands

Literature
G.E. Ambrose, Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures Belonging to the Marques of Lansdowne, K.C. at Lansdowne House, London and Bowood, Wiltshire, London 1897, pp. 70-71, nr. 107
C, Hofstede de Groot, A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch painters of the seventeenth century, London 1923, Vol VII, p. 411, nr. 489 and p. 454, nr. 547 (‘Bright and masterly in style’)
W. Schulz, Aert van der Neer, Doornspijk 2002, p. 188, nr. 223 (as whereabouts unknown);
Ch. T. Seifert, ‘On Slippery Ground. Kolf in the Art of the Dutch Golden Age.’ In: The Art of Golf. Atlanta: The High Museum of Art 2012, pp. 23-24, ill. 3

Expertise
With certificate, dd. Berlin 13 April 2013, by Prof. dr. Wolfgang Schulz, after first hand inspection of the original.

Exhibition
On loan to the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1996-2012
Exhibition ‘The Art of Golf’, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia (February-June 2012)
The Oklahoma City Museum of Arts (July-October 2012)
Museum of Fine Arts, St Petersburg,
Florida (November 2012-February 2013)

Record
The present painting is recorded at the RKD, The Hague, under nr. 6401

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