Name: CORNELIS VAN POELENBURGH (UTRECHT 1594/5-1667)
Brand: An Italianate landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Price: 38000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

CORNELIS VAN POELENBURGH (UTRECHT 1594/5-1667)
An Italianate landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt
signed with initials 'C.P.' (lower left, on the stone)
oil on panel
15⁷⁄₈ x 19⁵⁄₈ in. (40.5 x 50 cm.)

Etienne-François de Choiseul (1719-1785), Marquise of Stainville and Duke of Choiseul; his sale, Paris, Boileau, 6 April 1772, lot 46 (FF 2,400 to Boileau).
Louis François de Bourbon (1717-1776), Prince of Conti; his deceased sale, Paris, Remy, 8 April-6 June 1777, lot 252 (FF 1,690 to Laglier).
Anonymous sale; Boileau, Paris, 15 March 1779, lot 148 (FF 1,200 to Paillet).
[The Property of a Lady]; Christie's, London, 16 March 1956, lot 16.
with Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, by 1956.
with Alfred Brod Gallery, London, by 1956.
with P. & D. Colnaghi, London, by 1957, where acquired by,
Stella Donner, by 1960, and by descent.
R. B. Fleming.
[The Property of a Lady]; Sotheby's London, 6 July 2006, lot 180, presumably where acquired by the present owner.

F. Basan, Recueil d'Estampes Gravées d'après les Tableaux du Cabinet de Monseigneur le Duc de Choiseul, Paris, 1771, pp. 3-4, no. 34, plate 34.
N. C. Sluijter-Seijffert, Cornelis van Poelenburch (ca. 1593-1667), Ph.D. dissertation, University of Leiden, Leiden, 1984, p. 232, no. 77.
N. Sluijter-Seiffert, Cornelis van Poelenburch 1594/5-1667: The Paintings, Amsterdam, 2016, pp. 97, 114-116 and 305, no. 45, fig. 114.

London, Alfred Brod Gallery, Autumn Exhibition, October-November 1956, no. 26.
London, Colnaghi, Paintings by Old Masters, 24 April-25 May 1957, no. 27.
Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, Ideal and Classical Landscape, 6 February-3 April 1960, no. 52.
Southampton, City Museum and Art Gallery, on loan, 1965.

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This painting is first recorded in the collection of Etienne-François de Choiseul, one of the greatest assemblages of art in France in the later part of the eighteenth century. Choiseul owned eight works by Rembrandt van Rijn, among masterpieces by Jacob van Ruisdael, Gerard ter Borch, Louis le Nain and Jean-Baptiste Greuze. Some of de Choiseul's works of art were dispersed in 1772, after which this painting was acquired by Louis François de Bourbon, Prince of Conti, whose celebrated art collection was housed in a purpose built gallery at the Palais de Temple in Paris, where he served as Grand Prior of the Knights of Malta.