(Hoorn 1595 – circa 1650/51 Enkhuizen)
An elegant family in a parkland landscape,
oil on canvas, 102.5 x 135.5 cm, framed

THIS LOT IS PART OF THE RIMPAU-LANGENSTEIN COLLECTION
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Provenance:
Collection of Theodor Gerhard Lürman (1789–1865), Bremen;
by descent to Diedrich Jacob Eduard Kulenkampff (1850–1916), Bremen;
to his daughter Gertrud Rimpau (neé Kulenkampff), until 1945;
September 1945 the Soviet occupying power expropriated Langenstein Castle and transferred the art collection to the Municipal Museum Halberstadt;
inv. no. K1/116;
restituted to the Rimpau family in 2005

Exhibited:
Bremen, Kunsthalle Bremen, Ausstellung historischer-Gemälde aus bremischem Privatbesitz in der Kunsthalle, Oktober – November 1904, cat. no. 141 (as Aelbert Cuyp)

Literature:
s.a. Ausstellung historischer-Gemälde aus bremischem Privatbesitz in der Kunsthalle, exhibition catalogue, Bremen 1904, no. 141 (as Aelbert Cuyp);
G. Pauli, Gemälde alter Meister im bremischen Privatbesitz. Eine Erinnerung an die Ausstellung in der Kunsthalle zu Bremen in den Monaten Oktober und November 1904, Bremen 1905, pp. 30, 58, no. 141 (as Aelbert Cuyp)

We are grateful to Fred Meijer for endorsing the attribution to Herman Doncker. He compares the present painting with a signed and dated family portrait by the artist auctioned within these rooms (see sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, 8 June 2021, lot 179).