Moonlit River Landscape Artist: Aert van der Neer (Dutch, 1603–1677)

17th century

European Art

On view, 2nd floor, European Art
Medium

Oil on panel

Dimensions

unframed: 15 × 22 7/8 in. (38.1 × 58.1 cm)

Credit Line

Bequest of Dr. Herbert and Monika Schaefer

Accession Number

2020.37.16

Culture

Dutch

Period

17th century

Classification

Paintings

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Provenance
Baron Anselm Salomon de Rothschild (1803–1874), Vienna, by 1873. Sydney J. Lamon (died 1973), New York [see note 1]; by inheritance to the Estate of Sydney J. Lamon; sale, Christie’s, London, June 29, 1973, lot 27; sold to Leger Galleries, London, June 29, 1973 [see note 2]. With Galerie Müllenmeister (Kurt Müllenmeister, dealer), Solingen, Germany, by May 1974; sold to Monika Schaefer (née Winter, died 2019) and Dr. Herbert Schaefer 1910–2011), Malaga, Spain, May 29, 1975 (on loan to the Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, Calif., 1977–81) (on loan to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1981–2019); bequeathed to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2019

Note 1: The Burlington Magazine (1974) erroneously lists the collector as “Syd. Johnson.”

Note 2: According to a price list of the sale affixed to the auction catalogue at the Frick Art Reference Library, New York (copy in accession file)

This work appears on our "Artworks with Nazi-Era Provenance Documentation Gaps" page.
Bibliography
  • Joachim Pissarro, Saints, Sinners, and Scenery: European Genre and Landscape Paintings from the Collection of Herbert and Monika Schaefer, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1998), 14
  • Collection: Dr. Herbert & Monika Schaefer, Selected Works, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Mountain View Press, 1998), 57–59, fig. no. 16
  • Fredo Bachmann, Aert Van der Neer: 1603/4–1677 (Breman: C. Shünemann, 1982), p. 109
  • "Notable Works of Art Now on the Market," Burlington Magazine Vol. 116, No. 86 (December 1974), fig. PLATE XXIII
  • Christie's New York, London, Highly Important Pictures by Old Masters, sale cat. (June 29, 1973), fig. lot 27
  • C Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century (London: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1923), p. 411, fig. no. 370
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

landscapes (representations)

Subject

moonlight rivers

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