Canal Scene in Moonlight

ArtistAttributed to Aert van der Neer Dutch, 1604–1677

Datecirca 1660s

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions31 7/8 x 39 1/4 in. (81 x 99.7 cm)
Frame: 41 7/8 x 49 x 4 in. (106.4 x 124.5 x 10.2 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number52.9.51

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ProvenanceCreated Netherlands, ca. 1660s. Count Henri Charles Jules Emmanuel de Greffuhle (1848–1932), Paris; [F. Kleinberger, Paris and New York] [1]; Geldern, Basel, Switzerland, December 6, 1921. [Firma D. Katz, Dieren, Netherlands by 1938 until at least summer of 1939]; [Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, by 1951]; sold to NCMA, 1952.

[1] Acquired from Greffuhle on April 25, 1905, half shares with Wildenstein, Paris and New York.

Published References“Les Cabinets d'Amateurs à Paris: La Collection de M. H. de Greffulhe,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 15 (1877), 163. Kleinberger Galleries, A Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of 150 Paintings by Old Masters of the Dutch, Flemish, German, Italian, Spanish, and French Schools from the Kleinberger Galleries (New York: Kleinberger Galleries, 1911), 60, illus. fig. 46. C[ornelis] Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, Vol. 7 (London: MacMillan & Co., 1923) no. 256. D. Katz, Tentoonstelling van belangrijke 17e eeuwsche Hollandsche schilderijen (Dieren bij Arnhem: 1939) 17. W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 61, illus. (b-w). W[illiam] R. Valentiner, "Raleigh's First 200 Paintings," Art News, 55 (April, 1956), illus. 49. Gilberte Martin-Méry, La Découverte de la Lumière des Primitifs aux Impressionnistes (Bordeaux: Delmas, 1959), 48. Fredo Bachmann, Aert van der Neer: 1603/4-1677 (Bremen: Carl Schuenemann Verlag, 1982), 128, 131, illus. fig. 97. Wolfgang Schulz, Aert van der Neer (Doornspijk : Davaco Publishers, 2002), p 59, 222, 249, illus. fig. 222. Dennis P. Weller, Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2009), cat. no. 31, illus. (color) 141.

Exhibition HistoryBordeaux, France, Galerie des Beaux Arts, “La Decouverte de la Lumière des Primitifs aux Impressionnistes,” May 20-July 31, 1959, cat. no. 90. Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Dutch Art in the Age of Rembrandt,” October 25, 1986-February 15, 1987.

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