
Poppy Harvey-Jones
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Provenance
Sale, H. Ruef, Munich, 2-4 July 1975
Sale, Galerie Bassenge, Berlin-Grunewald, 26 November 2010, lot 6037
With Rafael Valls, London, 2011
With Oliver Cyzer Fine Painting, London, where purchased by the present owner in 2013
Literature
H. Jedding, Johann Heinrich Roos: Werke einer Pfälzer Tiermalerfamilie in den Galerien Europas, Mainz, 1996, cat. no. 366, pp. 250, 252, 348, ill.
Johann Melchior Roos, the second son and pupil of Johann Heinrich Roos, painted several works of bears in landscapes between 1716-18. The most comparable of these, of the same measurements and also signed and dated 1718, depicts six polar bears in a rocky landscape, and was perhaps intended as a pendant to the present work (see: Jedding, ibid, cat. no. 367).