A Panoramic Landscape

Artists

Dimensions

18.8 x 29.9 cm (7 3/8 x 11 3/4 in.) mount: 24.3 x 35.3 cm (9 9/16 x 13 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Henry Constantine Jennings, London (L. 2771, without his mark), sold; [Christie's, London, 15 April 1778, lot 29]; to James Peachey, 1st Baron Selsey, or John Peachey, 2nd Baron Selsey, by descent; to his heirs, sold; [Sotheby’s, London, 20-28 June 1872, 9th day’s sale, under lot 2642] to; [Jane Noseda, London]. Henry Oppenheimer, London, sold; [Christie’s, London, 10, 13-14 July 1936, lot 272A] to; [Thomas Agnew and Sons, London]. Carl Robert Rudolf, London, 1956 (L. 2811b, mount, lower right). [1] A. Simon, Hoe Farm, Surrey. Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1981 (L. 3306, verso, lower right); The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Gift of George Abrams in memory of Roger Sonnabend, Harvard Business School Class of 1949, 2011.514. [1] According to the Oppenheimer sale catalogue, our drawing was from the “(?) Philipe Collection,” which Hans Ulrich Beck interpreted to be T. Philipe - presumably Thomas Philipe of London, whose sales occurred in the early 19th century. However, the verso inscriptions demonstrate that the first or second Baron Selsey purchased the drawing at Jennings’s sale in 1778. It remained in the family until 1872, excluding Philipe’s ownership. Furthermore, William Robinson (Amsterdam et. al 1991, cat. no. 34) and Beck previously published this drawing with provenance including Alfred Brod in 1963. Robinson identified our drawing with cat. no. 57 in Brod’s catalogue of that year; however, the Brod drawing is a different drawing by Molijn which is signed and dated 1659.