Skating on the Frozen Amstel River

Provenance

Foullon de Doué family, Château d'Ancise, Douy, France;[1] probably by inheritance to the d'Estampes family, Château d'Ancise;[2] (sale, at the Château de Cheverny by Philippe Rouillac, 7 June 2009, no. 40); (John Mitchell Fine Paintings, London); purchased 12 March 2010 by NGA. [1] This information was provided by William Mitchell, e-mail to Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., 22 February 2010, in NGA curatorial files. Douy is a small village in the Eure et Loir province of France, southwest of Paris between Orleans and Le Mans. [2] The d'Estampes family is given as the consignor in the 2009 sale catalogue. Preliminary research into the connections between the Foullon de Doué and d'Estampes families is documented in NGA curatorial files.

Skating on the Frozen Amstel River

Breen, Adam van

1611

Accession Number

2010.20.1

Medium

oil on panel

Dimensions

overall: 44.3 × 66.5 cm (17 7/16 × 26 3/16 in.) | framed: 55.88 x 78.74 x 5.08 cm (22 x 31 x 2 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund, in honor of Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr.