Barent Avercamp, 1612 Kampen – 1679 ebenda Lot n° 204

WINTER LANDSCAPE WITH ICE SKATERS Oil on wood. 44.5 × 60.5 cm. With monogram lower right: "AV.DN." (joined). This atmospheric painting of ice fun was originally oval (32 × 43 cm), but was later enlarged to a rectangle and inscribed with the monogram of Aert van der Neer (1603-1677). Hofstede de Groot already doubted the attribution to Aert van der Neer in the 1910s and attributed the painting to Barent Avercamp and Willem Rudolf Juynboll. The figures in the oval and the richness of detail in the costumes are characteristic of Barent Avercamp, as a comparison with the Winter Landscape in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (inv. no. A3286), shows. Barent or Barend Petersz. Avercamp (1612-1679) was a Dutch painter who was born and died in Kampen in the province of Overijssel. As a nephew and pupil of the painter Hendrick Avercamp (1585-1634), he worked on similar themes and in a very similar manner to his master Hendrick, with whom he began his apprenticeship in 1626. He then left Kampen in 1640 and went to Zutphen, where he stayed until 1649 before returning to Kampen for good. Barent Avercamp was accepted as a master in the Guild of St. Luke in 1656. He was both a painter and a draughtsman and worked on various themes: Architecture, landscape, especially snowy landscapes, portraits, but also genre scenes like this one. Provenance: Collection P. P. Volkoff, Leningrad. Collection Mrs. N. Danzas, Leningrad, 1908-1909 (label on verso). Collection of HRH Grand Duke Kyrill Vladimirovich Romanov (1876-1938), Leningrad. Collection Romer Williams, Worcester 1925. Kunsthandel Bachstitz, The Hague. E. Rössler, Berlin. Kunsthandel Bachstitz, The Hague, 1935. Art dealer H. Maas, The Hague. Auction Sotheby's, London, 3.12.1969, lot 19 (as Barent Avercamp). Swiss private ownership. Annotation: The painting was in Russian aristocratic ownership at the beginning of the 20th century, including in the collection of the Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovich Romanov (ill. 1), a grandson of Tsar Alexander II. Literature: Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, in: Monatshefte für Kunstwissenschaft 3, 1910, p. 118. Cornelis Hofstede de Groot: Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten Holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts, vol. VII, 1918, pp. 489-490, no. 527 (as perhaps by Avercamp, dated 1669 but painted 30 to 40 years earlier). Willem Rudolf Juynboll, in: Oudheikundig Jaarboek 2, 1934, p. 149 (as Barent Avercamp). Exhibition: St. Petersburg 1908: Starye Gody, Imperial Society for the encouragement of art, 20.11.1908-12.1.1909, no. 425. (1402381) (10) Barent Avercamp, 1612 Kampen - 1679 ibid. WINTER LANDSCAPE WITH ICE SKATERS Oil on panel. 44.5 × 60.5 cm. With monogram lower right: AV.DN. (joined). Provenance: Collection P. P. Volkoff, Leningrad. Collection Mrs. N. Danzas, Leningrad, 1908-1909 (with label on verso). Collection of HRH Grand Duke Kyrill Vladimirovich Romanov (1876-1938), Leningrad. Collection Romer Williams, Worcester 1925. Kunsthandel Bachstitz, The Hague. E. Rössler, Berlin. Art dealer Bachstitz, The Hague, 1935. Art dealer H. Maas, The Hague. Auction Sotheby's, London, 3.12.1969, lot 19 (as Barent Avercamp). Swiss private ownership. Notes: The painting was in Russian aristocratic ownership at the beginning of the 20th century, including in the collection of Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovich Romanov (ill. 1), a grandson of Tsar Alexander II. Literature: Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, in: Monatshefte für Kunstwissenschaft 3, 1910, p. 118. Cornelis Hofstede de Groot: Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten Holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts, vol. VII, 1918, pp. 489-490, no. 527 (as perhaps by Avercamp, dated 1669 but painted 30 to 40 years earlier). Willem Rudolf Juynboll, in: Oudheikundig Jaarboek 2, 1934, p. 149 (as Barent Avercamp). Exhibition: St. Petersburg 1908: Starye Gody, Imperial Society for the encouragement of art, 20.11.1908-12.1.1909, no. 425. (†)