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3056

Wouter Knijff

Wesel 1605/07 – 1694 Bergen op Zoom

City wall with bastions, windmill and a jetty on a river. Circa 1670/90

Oil on oak. 52,5 x 69,5 cm (20 ⅝ x 27 ⅜ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Wouter Knijff. City wall with bastions, windmill and a jetty on a river. Circa 1670/90.

Estimate:

EUR 8,000

 

- 12,000

USD 8,930

 

- 13,400

Sold for:

5,000 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 237-246

The Rohde-Hinze Collection 1 – Old Masters, Friday, 03.07.2015

Information

Oil on oak. 52,5 x 69,5 cm (20 ⅝ x 27 ⅜ in.). On the reverse with green grease pencil: 524. Catalogue raisonné: Accompanied by a certificate by Moritz Julius Binder, Berlin, dated 26 August 1930, where described as "eine charakteristische Arbeit von Wouter Knyf“ (in the original). On the reverse the two-part wooden panel partially covered with canvas, this painted in colour. Framed

Further version: "Art des Jan van Goyen“, 39 x 50 cm (inscribed by a later hand: IVG), in: auction catalogue: Hugo Ruef, 9 December 2014, lot 131, with illustration.

Related literature regarding the artist: Hans-Ulrich Beck: Künstler um Jan van Goyen, Doornspijk 1991, p. 235–51.

1930 art dealer L. Groeneveld, The Hague-Scheveningen / 1930 collection Kurt Rohde, Berlin / collection Elisabeth Rohde, Berlin.

Source, collection Rohde-Hinze: receipt L. Groeneveld, The Hague-Scheveningen, 10 February 1930, 500 RM