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17th-century Dutch School (follower of Adriaen Pietersz. de Venne) The Princes of Orange Setting Out on a Falconry Hunt Oil on oak panel, single plank, reinforced (Restored crack, restorations) 25 x 33.5 cm Provenance: From the collection of Pieter de Boer, Amsterdam, 1955; Anonymous sale; Sheila, 21 May 1985, lot 131 (sold for 7,410 florins) (attributed to a follower of Adriaen Pietersz. van de Venne); Anonymous sale; Paris, 18 December 1985, Maître Claude Boisgirard, lot 17 (attributed to Adriaen Pietersz. van de Venne); Acquired at this sale by the current owner; Private collection, France In this painting, which emphasises Orange propaganda, the three sons of William of Orange, known as ‘the Taciturn’, are depicted in the front row, from left to right: Maurice, Philip William and Frederick Henry. In the second row, from left to right, are depicted the three sons of John VI the Elder of Nassau: Ernst Casimir, Willem Lodewijk and Johan Ernst. Following in the tradition of princely equestrian portraits from the Northern Netherlands, it depicts the men of the House of Orange-Nassau setting out on a falconry hunt. Our painting is a fairly faithful reproduction of a composition by Adriaen van de Venne held at the Darmstadt Museum, no. GK277, copperplate, 19 x 27 cm (fig. 1). However, unlike the original copperplate, our panel does not depict the bell tower of the Grote Kerk in The Hague in the background on the right. This composition is also the subject of an engraving produced in 1621 by Willem Jacobsz. Delff after Adriaen de Venne (see Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, RP-P-1898-A-20799, fig. 2). Klaus Ertz and Christa Nitze-Ertz attribute the composition to David Vinckboons without mentioning the engraving, of which they were no doubt unaware.¹ In his recent monograph on the artist, Edwin Buijsen refutes this attribution.² Owing to its political and dynastic focus, this composition—which depicts a formidable group of leaders and heirs, the founders of the United Provinces—enjoyed great success, as evidenced by the various versions that have survived, such as the large canvas in the Rijksmuseum (172 x 283 cm, no. SK-A-445). 1. David Vinckboons 1576–1632. Monograph with a critical catalogue of drawings and paintings, Lingen, 2016, p. 397, no. 166, ill. p. 399. 2. On this iconography, see: Edwin Buijsen, *Ick soek en vind. De schilderijen van Adriaen van de Venne*, Zwolle, 2023, p. 60. 17th-century Dutch school (follower of Adriaen Pietersz. de Venne) 25 x 33.5 cm
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