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Lot 2081 Dα

Aernout Smit - Ships in Distress off a Rock

Auction 1197 - overview Cologne
21.05.2022, 11:00 - Old Masters
Estimate: 16.000 € - 18.000 €
Result: 18.000 € (incl. premium)

Aernout Smit

Ships in Distress off a Rock

Oil on canvas (relined). 75 x 99 cm.
Signed lower right: A. Smit (on the driftwood).

Provenance

Jules Porgès (1839–1921), Paris. - Presumably by descent to his daughter, Henriette Hélène, Marquise de La Ferté-Meun (1878-1946). - Private collection, Stuttgart. - SØR Rusche Collection, Germany. – Sotheby´s, London, 10.5.2019, lot 213. - Private collection, Netherlands.

Literature

H.-J. Raupp (ed.): Niederländische Malerei des. 17. Jahrhunderts der SØR Rusche-Sammlung, vol. 3, Landschaften und Seestücke, Münster/Hamburg/London 2001, pp. 244–47, cat. no. 64, with ill. - W. Pijbes, M. Aarts, M. J. Bok et al.: At Home in the Golden Age, exh. cat., Zwolle 2008, p. 130, cat. no. 144, with ill.

Exhibitions

At Home in the Golden Age, Rotterdam, Kunsthal Museum, 2008, cat. no. 144.