Abraham Hondius
A resting hunting company
Oil on panel : 91 X 124 cm
Bears an Ochtervelt signature
Sold at Dorotheum Vienna, 4/10/00
For 21.780 €
According to the experts at Dorotheum the signature is fake.
But in 1979 Susan Donahue Kuretsky in her monograph on Ochtervelt had published it as a real Ochtervelt. She even mentions that in 1900 Hofstede de Groot had studied the painting and had stated that the signature was genuine.
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Hondius, Attributed to Abraham, SOLD
"Resting huntsmen near a fountain"
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