Wooded Landscape with Sunken Road and Castle in the Distance

Signature(s)

LDV (lower left)

Wooded Landscape with Sunken Road and Castle in the Distance

France, Orléans, Musée des Beaux-Arts, inv. unk.

Other title(s)	Paysage boisé avec sablonnière
Category	paintings
Support	panel
Medium	oil
Composition	horizontal
Dimensions	30 x 38 cm
Location	permanent collection

Last attribution known	LDV
Signature by LDV	yes
Thiéry & Kervyn	LDV
Certification	Thiéry, Y.
Work seen	no
Our assessment	LDV

Bibliography

THIERY, Y. & KERVYN de MEERENDRE, M., Les peintres flamands de paysage au XVIIe siècle. Le baroque anversois et l'école bruxelloise, Bruxelles, 1987, p. 253, 25

DE MAERE, J. & WABBES, M., Illustrated Dictionary of 17th Century Flemish Painters, Bruxelles, 1994, p. 404

Comment

In Les peintres flamands de paysage au XVIIe siècle (Brussels, 1987), Yvonne Thiéry and Michel Kervyn de Meerandré wrote that this painting belongs to the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Orléans (France).

Asked about this painting, the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Orléans wrote (April 14, 2014) that despite their searches, they could no find a trace of this painting. They suggest three possible explanations for this. Either the mention by Thiéry and Kervyn is erroneous. Or this painting is registered with the museum under another name or title and could therefore not been found yet. Or the work was destroyed by bombing or looted at the end of World War II. But it certainly was not voluntarily alienated.