LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

47.50 in. (120.65 cm.) (height) by 72.00 in. (182.88 cm.) (width)

Markings:

Signed IAN Looten and dated 1661 (lr)

Condition:

Glue relined. In generally sound condition. The is a long repaired horizontal tear running across the path below the figure of the runner. Scattered touches of restoration in the sky and landscape.

Literature:

Julius Lange, Barionet Gavnoes Malerisamling, 1876, no. 12

Provenance:

By descent in the Reedtz-Thott family to Baron Axel Reedtz-Thott, Gavnoe Castle, Denmark Sold from the estate of the above, Christie's London, July 2, 1976, lot 26 Corporate collection, New Jersey Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York Literature: Julius Lange, Barionet Gavnoes Malerisamling, 1876, no. 12 Karl Madsen and Otto Andrup, Malerisamling paa Gavnoe, 1914, no. 88 Karl Madsen, "Malerisamlingen paa Gavnoe," Kunstmuseets Aarskrift IV (1917), pp. 63-64