Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings Signed (lower left): IVD Heÿde[n]
Gallery Label "The Huis ten Bosch" (House in the Wood) at The Hague, designed by Pieter Post, was built in the late 1640s as a suburban villa for Amalia van Solms, wife of the Dutch "stadtholder" Frederick Hendrick. Van der Heyden painted at least six views of the house and garden, one of which is dated 1668.
Notes The Huis ten Bosch (House in the Woods), near The Hague, was designed by the architect Pieter Post in about 1645 and completed in 1651 as a suburban villa for Amalia van Solms, wife of the Dutch stadtholder Prince Frederick Hendrick. The pendant to this picture, depicting the gardens of the Huis ten Bosch from the side (east), with an ivy-covered pavilion in the foreground, is also in the Museum's collection (64.65.3). A smaller version of this painting is in the National Gallery, London (21.6 x 28.6 cm; NG1914). Van der Heyden painted seven known views of the house and its grounds, one of which is dated 1665 or 1668.
Provenance Joshua Charles Vanneck, 4th Baron Huntingfield of Heveningham Hall, Yoxford, Suffolk (until d. 1915); [Asscher & Welker, London, in 1933]; [D. Katz, Dieren, The Netherlands, in 1934]; [W. E. Duits, Amsterdam, in 1935]; [Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna; sold to private collection, Vienna]; private collection, Vienna, later Greenwich, Conn. (by 1937–64; seized in Paris by the Nazis, held at Alt Aussee [1167/3] and at Munich collecting point [1368], returned to France October 30, 1946; restituted; given by owner to MMA; life interest, 1964–d. 1984)
Exhibition History Haarlem. Frans Halsmuseum. "Tentoonstelling van schilderijen van oud-hollandsche meesters uit de collectie Katz te Dieren," November 17–December 15, 1934, no. 37.
Exposition universelle et internationale de Bruxelles. "Cinq siècles d'art," May 24–October 13, 1935, no. 733.
Amsterdams Hist. Museum, Sint Anthonies Waag. "Jan van der Heyden," March 5–April 12, 1937, no. 13.
Greenwich, Conn. Bruce Museum. "Jan van der Heyden (1637–1712)," September 16, 2006–January 10, 2007, no. 22.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 18, 2007–January 6, 2008, no catalogue.
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