The Tiber River with the Ponte Molle at Sunset

Provenance

(David Ietswaart, Amsterdam); Willem Lormier [1682-1758], The Hague;[1] (his estate sale, A. Franken, The Hague, 4 July 1763, no. 64); De Heer Yves. Gottfried Winkler [1731-1795], Leipzig, by 1768.[2] (anonymous sale, Frederik Müller et Cie at the Hotel de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, 23 February 1904, no. 1); Joanna Maria Tydeman-VerLoren van Themaat [1861-1954], Ginneken;[3] by descent in the Tydeman family; purchased 7 November 2012 through (Rachel Kaminsky Fine Art, New York) by NGA. [1] A catalogue of Lormier's collection was published in 1752, and served as a guide for visitors who came to see the 376 paintings. Two copies of the catalogue, annotated with purchase, price, and sale information by Lormier himself, are in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (Netherlands Institute for Art History), The Hague. See: Everhard Korthals Altes, "The Eighteenth-Century Gentleman Dealer Willem Lormier and the International Dispersal of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Paintings," _Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art_ 28, no. 4 (2000-2001): 251-311. [2] Franz Wilhelm Kreuchauf, _Historische Erklärungen der Gemälde welche Herr Gottfried Winkler in Leipzig_, Leipzig, 1768: 101-102, no. 255. [3] According to the dealer's prospectus, in NGA curatorial files; she lent the painting to a 1938 exhibition in Eindhoven. A copy of the 1904 sale catalogue in the NGA library is annotated with F. Müller's name as the buyer; he was perhaps also acting as a buyer's agent at the sale. A label on the painting's stretcher reads "Eigendom van: Mr M. A Tydeman, Amersfoort," and "Tydeman" is also written in black crayon on the stretcher. Joanna Maria's husband (1854-1916) and son (1884-1961) were both named Meinard.

The Tiber River with the Ponte Molle at Sunset

Asselijn, Jan

c. 1650

Accession Number

2012.129.1

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 41.2 × 54 cm (16 1/4 × 21 1/4 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Florian Carr Fund, New Century Fund, and Nell and Robert Weidenhammer Fund