Lot 1220 | Herman Saftleven | Loading a Riverboat with Bales and Barrels

SAFTLEVEN, HERMAN
1609 Rotterdam - 1685 Utrecht


Title: Loading a Riverboat with Bales and Barrels.
Date: 1679.
Technique: Oil on wood.
Measurement: 12.5 x 16.6cm.
Notation: Dated and signed on the stern of the ship: "1679 above thtis presumably remains of a signature: "?SA"".
Frame: Framed.

Verso glued on paper with handwritten note:
"Herm. Herm. Zaftleeven pinx. 1675"

The present work is listed and documented at the online database of the RKD, Den Hague, under the ill. no. 313451.

Literature:
W. Schulz: Herman Saftleven: 1609 - 1685, Leben und Werk, Berlin 1982, no. 201

Provenance:
Private ownership, Germany;
Auction Sotheby's, London, 9th-10th April, 1986, lot 95;
Auction Fischer, Luzern, 14th-21st November, 1978, lot 1870 (there with the certificate Walter Bernt);
1979 loan coll. Schöpke (acc. to inscription verso, poss. Reiner & Elisabeth Schöpke, Frauenfeld)).

We are grateful to Ellis Dullaart, RKD, Den Hague, who confirmed the attribution of the present painting on the basis of a high-resolution digital photograph.