A Classical Landscape with Women Bathing
Johan van Haensbergen (1642 - The Hague 1705)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1662 - 1705
Materials
Oil on panel (oak)
Measurements
219 x 273 mm (8 5/8 x 10 3/4 in)
Place of origin
Holland
Order this imageCollection
Upton House, Warwickshire
NT 446726
Summary
Oil painting on oak panel, A Classical Landscape with Women Bathing by Johan van Haensbergen (1642 - The Hague 1705), bears Poelenburch's intials: C.P. on rock at centre. On the left a pool in which a group of women are bathing; two others converse over a pile of washing in the right foreground; a ruined building lies in a valley, beyond which are distant hills. Formerly catalogued as Poelenburch, but almost certainly by his pupil, Haensbergen. The positioning and accentuation of the signature are both suspicious, and the picture is clearly by the same hand as, for example, Haensbergen's Women Bathing in the Mauritshuis (No.135).
Provenance
Previous history and date of acquisition by Lord Bearsted unrecorded [probably the painting recorded by the 1st Lord Bearsted in the ms. cat. of his pictures compiled in 1919]; given with Upton House to the National Trust by Walter Samuel, 2nd Viscount Bearsted (1882 – 1948), in 1948, shortly before his death
Marks and inscriptions
C.P. (signed with Poelenbergh's initials)
Makers and roles
Johan van Haensbergen (1642 - The Hague 1705), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Cornelis van Poelenburch (Utrecht 1594/5 - Utrecht 1667) , artist