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PIETER DE BLOOT (ROTTERDAM 1601/02-1658)
A wooded river landscape with figures resting by a tree on the river bank, a ferry with a horseman and fishermen hauling in their nets beyond
41.2 x 72.8 cm. (1614 x 2858 in.)
Provenance
Count A. Balny d’Avricourt, Paris, circa 1970.
with A. Wieg, where acquired by the previous owner in 2001.
Literature
(Possibly) C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné, etc., VIII, London, 1927, p. 147, no. 587, as Jan van Goyen, signed and said to be dated 1618.
H.-U. Beck, Künstler um Jan Van Goyen, IV, Doornspijk, 1991, p. 48, no. 78 C2, illustrated, as possible attribution.
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It is possible the figures in the lower left foreground of the present landscape depict Abraham sending away Hagar and Ishmael (Genesis 21:8-21).

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