Auction 524 Fine Art
Nov 14, 2024
Hitzelerstr. 2, 50968 Köln, Germany
Auction: Thursday, 14 November 2024
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LOT 1220:

Herman Saftleven: Loading a Riverboat with Bales and Barrels

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Auction took place on Nov 14, 2024 at VAN HAM Kunstauktionen GmbH Co. KG
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Herman Saftleven: Loading a Riverboat with Bales and Barrels
SAFTLEVEN, HERMAN
1609 Rotterdam - 1685 Utrecht

Title: Loading a Riverboat with Bales and Barrels.
Date: 1679.
Technique: Oil on wood.
Measurement: 12.5 x 16.6cm.
Notation: Dated and signed on the stern of the ship: "1679 above thtis presumably remains of a signature: "?SA"".
Frame: Framed.

Verso glued on paper with handwritten note:
"Herm. Herm. Zaftleeven pinx. 1675"

The present work is listed and documented at the online database of the RKD, Den Hague, under the ill. no. 313451.

Literature:
W. Schulz: Herman Saftleven: 1609 - 1685, Leben und Werk, Berlin 1982, no. 201

Provenance:
Private ownership, Germany;
Auction Sotheby's, London, 9th-10th April, 1986, lot 95;
Auction Fischer, Luzern, 14th-21st November, 1978, lot 1870 (there with the certificate Walter Bernt);
1979 loan coll. Schöpke (acc. to inscription verso, poss. Reiner & Elisabeth Schöpke, Frauenfeld)).

We are grateful to Ellis Dullaart, RKD, Den Hague, who confirmed the attribution of the present painting on the basis of a high-resolution digital photograph.

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Explanations to the Catalogue

Herman Saftleven
The Netherlands
Dutch School
17th C.
Old Masters
Framed
Ships
Painting

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