Jan Baptist Weenix
River Landscape with a Ferry
Artist
Jan Baptist Weenix
Amsterdam 1621 – Huister Mey, Netherlands, 1660/61
Title
River Landscape with a Ferry
Date
About 1650
Materials
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
152.4 x 203.2 cm
Credits
Purchase, Horsley and Annie Townsend Bequest and gift of Papachristidis (Canada) Limited, inv. 1989.17
Collection
Western Art
Amsterdam, Van Diemen family (by 1675; thence by descent to the Marquesses Mansi, Lucca, where still recorded in 1926; as by Adam Pynacker);
Florence, Villa Giramonte, Contessa Fortuna (by descent);
Amsterdam, dealer Bernard Houthakker (in 1973);
Ireland, Patrick Gallagher (London, Sotheby’s, 17 November 1982, No. 100, not sold);
Maastricht and London, dealer Noortman & Brod;
Auction New York, Christie’s, 5 June 1985, No. 154, not sold;
New York, French & Company.
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