Attributed to Jan Wijnants (Dutch 1631-1684)

Attributed to Jan Wijnants (Dutch 1631-1684)
Figures in a dune landscape
Bears a monogram (lower right)
Oil on canvas laid on panel
35.1 x 44cm; 13¾ x 17¼in

Provenance:
Possibly London, 13 February 1904, no.25 (to Lesser)
By family descent to the present owner

Literature:
Possibly Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century (London, 1927), no.619;
Possibly K. Eisele, Jan Wijnants: Ein Niederländischer Maler der Ideallandschaft im Goldenen Jahrhundert (Stuttgart, 2000), no.U53

There is another version of this work, firmly attributed to Wijnants by Eisle, with an almost identical composition with the exception of the resting traveller (see Eisle, op. cit., no.315). However, examination of the image from when that version last appeared on the market, suggests that this figure was at one point present, and was either a pentimento, or had subsequently been overpainted.