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Property restituted from the Olomouc Museum of Art, Czech Republic

Haarlem School, 17th Century

A village scene

Lot Closed

December 9, 03:53 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property restituted from the Olomouc Museum of Art, Czech Republic

Haarlem School, 17th Century

A village scene


oil on panel

unframed: 52.6 x 73.2 cm.; 20¾ x 28⅞in.

framed: 68.4 x 89.7 cm.; 27 x 35⅜ in.

With K. Dittrich, Brno;
From whom acquired by a private collector, Czech Republic, around 1950;
From whom confiscated and deposited at the Olomouc Museum of Art (inv. no. D474), in 1958;
Returned to the heirs of the original owner in 1993, when loaned to the Olomouc Museum of Art.
Olomouc, Olomouc Museum of Art, 1993-2021, on loan.
L. Machytka, Nizozemské malířství ve sbírkách olomoucké oblasti, 2 vols, unpublished dissertation, Olomouc 1970, vol. II, p. 323;
L. Machytka, ‘Nové poznatky o nizozemských obrazech v Olomouci’, Ročenka Státního okresního archivu v Olomouci 1998, Olomouc 1999, p. 139;
L. Machytka and G. Elbelová (eds), Netherlandish Painting of the 16th-18th centuries from Olomouc Collections. Olomouc Picture Gallery, vol. II, Olomouc 2000, pp. 118-20, no. 83, reproduced p. 119 (as Salomon Rombouts[?]).