Moonlit River Landscape with Fishermen, Hendrick Avercamp, c. 1625

…; ? sale, Michiel Laars (?-1763, Amsterdam), Amsterdam (Blinkvliet de Winter), 9 April 1764 sqq., Album B, no. 78 (‘Een Manescheyntje, door Van Kampen, en een door Berkheyde’), with one other drawing;{Copy RKD.} …; collection Johann August Gottlieb Weigel (1773-1846), Leipzig;{According to the inscription on the verso.} his sons, Rudolph Weigel (1804-67), Leipzig, and Theodor Oswald Weigel (1812-81), Leipzig; sale, Johann August Gottlieb Weigel, Stuttgart (H.G. Gutekunst), 15 May 1883 sqq., no. 44 (‘Hendrik van Avercamp. Mondscheinlandschaft. [...] L. 19cm, H. 14 cm’); …; collection Freiherr Adalbert von Lanna (1836-1909), Prague (L. 2773); his sale, Stuttgart (H.G. Gutekunst), 6 May 1910 sqq., no. 62 (‘Hendrik van Averkamp. Flusslandschaft mit Fischerbooten bei Mondschein, links am Ufer zwei Männer und ein Hund. 14 ½ x 19 ½. Wirkungsvolle Aquarelle. Bezeichnet. Sammlung Weigel’), DM 460, to the dealer ‘Artaria’;{Copy RKD.} …; collection Johan II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1840-1929), Vaduz; his grandnephew, Franz Josef II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1906-89), Vaduz; sold through the mediation of the dealer W. Feilchenfeldt, Zurich, 1945-47;{Zurich 1972-73, unpag. introduction; L. 4398.} from whom, fl. 2500, to the museum (L. 2228), 1948

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