View of Grainfields with a Distant Town

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View of Grainfields with a Distant Town

circa 1670
Paintings
Oil on canvas
Canvas: 20 1/4 × 25 1/2 in. (51.44 × 64.77 cm) Framed: 29 × 34 1/2 × 3 1/2 in. (73.66 × 87.63 × 8.89 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edward William Carter (M.2009.106.12)
European Painting
Not currently on public view

Provenance

Friedrich Moritz (1742–1814), Freiherr, after 1803 Graf von Brabeck, Söder, near Hildesheim, by 1792,(1) by inheritance through his daughter; Philippine (1796–1821), Gräfin von Brabeck, to her husb

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Friedrich Moritz (1742–1814), Freiherr, after 1803 Graf von Brabeck, Söder, near Hildesheim, by 1792,(1) by inheritance through his daughter; Philippine (1796–1821), Gräfin von Brabeck, to her husband (m. 1817); Andreas Stolberg (1786–1863), Freiherr von Söder (sale, Hannover, Rumpler, 31 Oct. 1859, lot 230). Freiherr von Savigny,(2) Berlin. [P. Cassirer, Berlin, sold 1918 to]; Private collection, Sweden. Private collection, Norway. [Frederick Mont, New York, 1970, sold to]; Mr. and Mrs. Edward William Carter, Los Angeles, given 2009 to; LACMA.

Footnotes

(1) For Brabeck (also Brabek), see Ramdohr 1792, Kracht 1978, and Wittstock 2008.

(2) Probably the jurist Friedrich Karl Savigny (1779–1861), who left teaching in 1842, when he was named Grosskanzler of Prussia.

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Bibliography

  • Walsh, Jr., John., and Cynthis P. Schneider. A Mirror of Nature:  Dutch Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Edward William Carter (Second Edition).  Los Angeles:  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1992.

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  • Walsh, Jr., John., and Cynthis P. Schneider. A Mirror of Nature:  Dutch Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Edward William Carter (Second Edition).  Los Angeles:  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1992.

    View this publication in LACMA's Reading Room

  • Walsh, Amy L. The Mr. and Mrs. Edward Carter Collection of Dutch Paintings. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019. https://archive.org/details/Carter_Collection_Dutch_Paintings (accessed May 23, 2022).
  • Slive, Seymour. Jacob van Ruisdael: A Complete Catalogue of His Painitngs, Drawings and Etchings. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001.
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