Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings Signed (lower right): I·V·D·Heyden
Gallery Label In this pendant to "The Huis ten Bosch Seen from the Back" (64.65.2), Van der Heyden shows the same parterre garden behind the palace from the side, with ivy-covered pavilions that echo the shape of the central "Hall of Orange" (Oranjezaal) inside. Classical sculptures and trellis-work obelisks mark the main axes between the French-inspired "parterres de broderie."
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.
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 [1167/2] 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. 36.
Exposition universelle et internationale de Bruxelles. "Cinq siècles d'art," May 24–October 13, 1935, no. 734.
Amsterdams Hist. Museum, Sint Anthonies Waag. "Jan van der Heyden," March 5–April 12, 1937, no. 14.
Greenwich, Conn. Bruce Museum. "Jan van der Heyden (1637–1712)," September 16, 2006–January 10, 2007, no. 23.
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.
References [Claus Virch]. Paintings in the Collection of Charles and Edith Neuman de Végvár . [New York], [1970], p. 10.Jan van der Heyden, 1637–1712 . Amsterdam, 1971, pp. 45, 97, no. 135, ill. p. 157.Jan van der Heyden . Amsterdam, 1984, p. 36, fig. 21.A Guide to Dutch Art in America . Grand Rapids, Mich., 1986, p. 191.Haagse Stadsgezichten, 1550–1800: Topografische Schilderijen van het Haags Historisch Museum . Zwolle, The Netherlands, 1991, p. 54 n. 96, pp. 326, 328 n. 24, fig. 8.Die niederländischen Gemälde, 1500–1800 . Hamburg, 2001, p. 122, under no. 77.Jan van der Heyden (1637–1712) . Exh. cat., Bruce Museum. New Haven, 2006, pp. 51–52, 158–63, no. 23, ill. (color, overall and detail).Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art . New York, 2007, vol. 1, pp. ix, 335–40, no. 79, colorpl. 79.
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