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Dimensions: measurements note each 49.5 by 64.8 cm.; 19 1/2 by 25 1/2 in.

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Provenance: Malcolm Franklin, Chicago;
Private collection, Palm Beach, Florida;
Whence sold anonymously, New York, Christie's, 18 June 1982, lot 79;
With Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York;
From whom bought by the present owner (Offered London, Christie's, 6 December 2007, lot 63, estimate £300,000-500,000, where unsold).

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Exhibited: Munich, Haus der Kunst, Im Licht von Claude Lorrain. Landschaftsmalerei aus drei Jahrhunderten, 12 March-29 May 1983, nos. 121-2.

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Literature: A. Blankert (ed.), Nederlandse 17υe eeuwse italianiserende landschap schilders, exhibition catalogue, Soest-Utrecht, 1965, p. 247;
D. Coeckelberghs, "H.-F. Van Lint copiste et imitateur de Claude Lorrain", in Revue des Achéologues et Historiens d'Art de Louvain, 1971, p. 185;
A. Busiri Vici, Peter, Hendrik e Giacomo Van Lint. Tre pittori di Anversa del '600 e '700 lavorano a Roma, Rome 1987, pp. 230-1, nos. 275-6, reproduced.

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Notes: PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
These highly accomplished paintings are mature works by Van Lint, dating from the late 1730s or 1740s. In earlier works Van Lint frequently collaborated with figure painters who supplied the staffage, such as Giuseppe Chiari, Sebastiano Conca, Corrado Giaquinto, Mengs, Manglard, Subleyras and Pompeo Batoni. As Edgar Peter Bowron has observed however, the staffage in the present pair, though based on earlier types supplied by Batoni, are from the hand of Van Lint, who by the late 1730s was a figure painter capable enough not to seek recorse to staffage specialists.υ1

1. Cited in the 2007 Christie's sale catalogue; see under provenance.υ