JAN Wijnants

(Haarlem 1631/2 - 1684 Amsterdam)

A River Landscape with elegant Travellers and a Peasant Family

Signed, lower right: J.W.
Oil on panel, 10⅜ x 9⅜ ins. (26.4 x 23.8 cm)
Framed: 15⅛ x 9⅜ ins. (26.4 x 23.8 cm)
VP5139 

Provenance

Probably Johan van der Marck Aegidiusz (1707-1772), Leiden
Probably his estate sale, Amsterdam, de Winterand Yver, 25 August 1773, lot 381
Probably where acquired by "Yver," for 180 fl.
Probably Renaud-César-Louis de Choiseul (1735-1791), 2nd Duc de Praslin, Paris
Probably his estate sale, Paris, Paillet, 18 February 1793, lot 117, where acquired for 1060 livres
Probably Jurriaans
Probably offered at his anonymous sale, Amsterdam, van der Schley, Roos, and de Vries, 28 August 1817, lot 79, where likely unsold
Probably with W.E. Duits, London, 1948
With Thomas Agnew and Sons, London
From whom acquired by a private collector
By whom sold ("The Property of a Private Collector"), New York, Christie's, 25 May 1999, lot 104 ($266,500)
Where acquired by Richard Green, London
Anonymous sale ("Property of a Corporation"), New York, Sotheby's, 23 May 2001, lot 12 ($220,250)
Where acquired by June and Henry H. Weldon, New York
By whom sold ("Property from the Weldon Collection"), London, Sotheby's, 2 May 2018, lot 17
Where acquired by Ambassador J. William Middendorf II, Rhode Island (1924-2025); sold from his estate
Anonymous sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 5 February 2026, lot 315


Literature

J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French painters, vol. VI, London 1829, p. 242, cat. no. 48
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. VIII, Edinburgh 1927, p. 469, cat. no. 169; p. 495,
cat. no. 278 (identified as possibly identical)
K. Eisele, Jan Wijnants (1631/32-1684), Ein niederländischer Maler der Ideallandschaft im goldenen Jahrhundert, Stuttgart 2000, p. 146, cat. no. 129, reproduced.


Notes

The figures are by Johannes Lingelbach (Frankfurt 1622 - 1674 Amsterdam)