Arcadian Landscape, one of a series of ten murals in the garden room of the main floor of the Amsterdam house Herengracht 524

Arcadian Landscape, one of a series of ten murals in the garden room of the main floor of the Amsterdam house Herengracht 524

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Wandschildering tegenover de schoorsteenmantel. Uit een serie van tien wandschilderingen met arcadische landschappen in de kamer aan de tuinkant op de hoofdverdieping van het huis Herengracht 524 te Amsterdam.

signature and date: ‘J. Andriessen inv. et fec. 1771’

painter: Jurriaan Andriessen, Amsterdam

1771

oil on canvas

height 325 cm x width 245 cm

H.L.P. Jonas van 's Heer Arendskerke-Lefèvre de Montigny Bequest

bequest 1949

Public domain

Commissioned by Jacob van Ghesel jr. (1732-1792), for the house Herengracht 524, Amsterdam, c. 1771; his nephew, Jacob van Ghesel Jansz. (1764-1803), with the house Herengracht 524, Amsterdam; purchased from whom, with the house Herengracht 524, Amsterdam, by Abraham Bredius (1731-1804), 1798; his son, Abraham Bredius (1781-1863), with the house Herengracht 524, Amsterdam; his daughter, Aleida Elisabeth Bredius (1805-86) and his son, Johannes Jacobus Bredius (1808-94), with the house Herengracht 524, Amsterdam; his son, dr. Abraham Bredius (1855-1946), with the house Herengracht 524, Amsterdam; from whom, fl. 55,000, with the house Herengracht 524, Amsterdam, to Pieter Johannes Jacobus Jonas, Lord 's Heer Arendskerke (1874-1935); his widow, Hélène Louise Pauline le Fèvre de Montigny (1875-1949), with the house Herengracht 524, Amsterdam; by whom bequeathed, with xx other objects, to the museum, 1949 {Provenance reconstructed in Van Eeghen et al. 1976, p. 589; the paintings are still at Herengracht 524, Amsterdam.}

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