Dirk Langendijk

(Rotterdam 1748 - 1805)
Rolling landscape with cavalry retreating during a battle
Signed and dated 1781 l.l.
Oil on mahogany panel, 41.1 x 47.6 cm
Provenance:
- Collection Gerrit van der Pot, Heer van Groeneveld, Rotterdam (1781)
- Auction heritage Gerrit van der Pot, 6 June 1808, lot 68 (as pendant)
- Collection Van Yperen, the Netherlands
- Auction Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 5 September, 2002 (incl. invoice)
- Private collection, the Netherlands
N.B.I:
Registrated at the RKD - Institute for Dutch Art History in The Hague under number 108655.
N.B.II:
On the original invoice, dated Rotterdam, 16 november 1781 Langendijk wrote the following:
Den Heer Gerrit van der Pot
is schuldig aan Dirk Langendijk
de somma van Twee honderd guldens
ter voldoening van een stukje schilderij
hoog ruim 15 1/2 breed breed 18 duim aan zijn Ed. Geleverd
verbeeldende een Nederlaag der ruijterij
Zegge f 200.
Voldaan op dato
Dirk Langendijk
N.B.III:
Gerrit van der Pot was owner of an important collection Old Masters and contemporary paintings. The famous painting De avondschool by Gerard Dou (1613-1675), to be found in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (object no. SK-A-87), was part of his collection.