Samuel van Hoogstraten 1627 – Dordrecht – 1678

A View From a Villa, with a Child Seated at a Fountain and an Avenue of Statues

Provenance

Possibly United States, collection of Maia R. Gregory (1918-2004)1 Probably Ireland (Dublin?), private collection2
Sale London, Sotheby’s, 8 May 1975, lot 68, where acquired by United Kingdom, collection Mr. and Mrs. R. Robinson, until 2023

Literature

W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, 6 vols., Landau/Pfalz 1982-1994, 2 (1983), pp. 1305, 1384, cat. no. 901, ill.
M. Roscam Abbing, De schilder & schrijver Samuel van Hoogstraten 1627-1678 : eigentijdse bronnen en oeuvre van gesigneerde schilderijen, Leiden 1993, p. 136, cat. no. 37

C. Brusati, Artifice and Illusion : The Art and Writing of Samuel van Hoogstraten, Chicago 1995, pp. 110-111 (fig. 70), 119, 366, cat. no. 98
J. Blanc, Peindre et penser la peinture au XVIIe siècle : la théorie de l’art de Samuel van Hoogstraten, Bern 2008, p. 388, cat. no. P155
T. Weststeijn, The Visible World : Samuel van Hoogstraten’s Art Theory and the Legitimation of Painting in the Dutch Golden Age, Amsterdam 2008, p. 419, note 197 D. de Witt, ‘From Rembrandt’s nae ‘t leven to Van Hoogstraten’s zichtbaere werelt’, in: S. Pénot (ed.), Rembrandt Hoogstraten : Colour and Illusion, exh. cat. Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum 2024-2025, pp. 122-151, pp. 133, 139, figs. 65, 65a
D. de Witt, ‘Van Rembrandt’s nae ’t leven tot Van Hoogstratens zichtbaere werelt’, in: L. van Sloten, D. de Witt, Samuel van Hoogstraten : De illusionist, exh. cat. Amsterdam, Rembrandthuis 2025, pp. 66-81, pp. 73, 75-76, figs. 58, 58a