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Jan Griffier(Amsterdam 1656-1718 London)A winter landscape with figures skating, merry making and others by a tavern
3 July 2024, 14:00 BST
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Jan Griffier (Amsterdam 1656-1718 London)
A winter landscape with figures skating, merry making and others by a tavern
signed 'JAN GRIFFIER' (lower centre)
oil on copper
51.5 x 58.6cm (20 1/4 x 23 1/16in).
signed 'JAN GRIFFIER' (lower centre)
oil on copper
51.5 x 58.6cm (20 1/4 x 23 1/16in).
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Provenance
With Leggatt Brothers, London (according to a label on the reverse)
Private Collection, UK since at least 1946
The present painting is an important and rare example of Griffier's winter landscapes and is particularly comparable in its ambition and its composition to his Winter landscape with skaters, church and village along the bank of a river (oil on copper, 51.5 x 59 cm., see fig.1) in the Galleria Sabauda, Musei Reali di Torino. Like the present painting, that work shows an extensive river landscape with an imaginary castle and numerous figures with an encampment in the left hand foreground. Another similar such example is his A winter landscape with figures ice skating, a village and castle beyond (oil on copper, 51.5 x 58.7 cm., sold Sotheby's, London, 7 July 2021, lot 25). The former, together with Rhenish capricci and London views along with several other winter landscapes, is among the sixteen works by Griffier, most being on copper plates of identical size to the present one, acquired by Prince Eugene of Savoy, probably shortly after the death of the painter in 1718.
Griffier was a constant traveller and spent many years from 1667 onwards in London. He clearly liked boats, living on one on the Thames, from which he painted views of London, and from 1695 onwards living on another, traversing the inland waterways of Holland, according to his biographer Arnold Houbraken. Horace Walpole also suggested that Griffier had his own yacht in which he travelled while sketching the scenery. He spent about ten years in Holland before returning to London and it would have been that period of his career that inspired the present composition.
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