Property restituted from the Olomouc Museum of Art, Czech Republic
Willem Romeyn
A landscape with cattle and ruins beyond
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Property restituted from the Olomouc Museum of Art, Czech Republic
Willem Romeyn
Haarlem circa 1624 - circa 1694
A landscape with cattle and ruins beyond
oil on oak panel
unframed: 36.1 x 43.3 cm.; 14¼ x 17 in. (with extensions of 2.6 cm. to the lower and right-hand edge)
framed: 54.3 x 62.1 cm.; 21⅜ x 24½ in.
With K. Dittrich, Brno;
From whom acquired by a private collector, Czech Republic, after 1945;
From whom confiscated and deposited at the Olomouc Museum of Art (inv. no. D483), in 1958;
Returned to the heirs of the original owner in 1993, when loaned to the Olomouc Museum of Art.
From whom acquired by a private collector, Czech Republic, after 1945;
From whom confiscated and deposited at the Olomouc Museum of Art (inv. no. D483), in 1958;
Returned to the heirs of the original owner in 1993, when loaned to the Olomouc Museum of Art.
Olomouc, Olomouc Musuem of Art, 1993-2021, on loan.
L. Machytka, Nizozemské malířství ve sbírkách olomoucké oblasti, 2 vols, unpublished dissertation, Olomouc 1970, vol. II, pp. 365-66;
L. Machytka, Obrazy nizozemskýchí malířů na Olomoucku, Okresní archiv v Olomouci 1987, Olomouc 1988, p. 52;
L. Machytka and G. Elbelová (eds), Netherlandish Painting of the 16th-18th centuries from Olomouc Collections. Olomouc Picture Gallery, vol. II, Olomouc 2000, pp. 120-21, no. 84, reproduced in colour p. 121.
L. Machytka, Obrazy nizozemskýchí malířů na Olomoucku, Okresní archiv v Olomouci 1987, Olomouc 1988, p. 52;
L. Machytka and G. Elbelová (eds), Netherlandish Painting of the 16th-18th centuries from Olomouc Collections. Olomouc Picture Gallery, vol. II, Olomouc 2000, pp. 120-21, no. 84, reproduced in colour p. 121.
Similar ruins can be found in Willem Romeyn's signed Italian landscape with cattle in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.1