Jacob VAN STRIJ

Provenance: An unidentified collector’s mark (Lugt 2508) stamped at the lower left
Probably Alexander Emil Posonyi, Vienna (with his stamp [Lugt 159] partially cut off at the lower left
Private collection
Anonymous sale (‘A Collection of Watercolours and Gouaches, The Property of a European Nobleman’), Amsterdam, Sotheby Mak van Waay, 14 November 1983, lot 100
Dr. Thomas E. Bartee, in 1997
Thence by descent.

Literature: Wiepke Loos, Robert-Jan te Rijdt and Marjan van Heteren, On Country Roads and Fields: The depiction of 18th- and 19th-century landscape, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam, 1997-1998, pp.162-163, no.21 (entry by Robert-Jan te Rijdt), where dated c.1790-1800.

Exhibition: Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Langs velden en wegen: De verbeelding van het landschap in de 18de en 19de eeuw / On Country Roads and Fields: The depiction of 18th- and 19th-century landscape, 1997-1998, no.21 (lent by Thomas Bartee).