Fall Fine Art & Antiques Auction
Lot 14. "Travelers in a Wooded Interior", ca. 1650. Oil on panel, attributed, bears spurious initials "IvR" for possibly for Jacob van Ruysdael, along roadside, right. Housed in a ca. 19th Century Louis XV pattern frame with cradle back reinforcement. Panel apprx 25-1/2" x 21-1/4". With frame apprx 35-1/4" x 31-1/2". Name plate attached on front inscribed with van Ruysdael name. This painting was sold into the great collection of Old Master paintings formed by Hungarian industrialist, Baron Laszlo Kohner. So important was the Kohner Collection that at his death, the auction sale was conducted in the National Museum in Budapest. Provenance: Purchased from the Baron Kohner Estate Sale, Budapest ca. 1936 (as a Jacob van Ruysdael). Passed from a private London dealer to collector Paul Fay, Cleveland, Ohio. Sold to a private collector in Shaker Heights, Ohio by Mr. Fay, 1942. Ref: Thieme-Becker, vol. 33-35, pp, 261-264 and Benezet, vol. 14, pp 158-59. Accompanying the painting in this lot is a letter from Seymour Slive of the Fogg Art Museum, the original bill of sale from Paul Fay dated June 23, 1942, and a letter from Dr. E. John Walford, Wheaton College.
15000.00/20000.00