A Wooded River Landscape with Travelers Resting and Conversing on a Path
Jan Wijnants (Dutch, c. 1635–1684)

Purchased at anonymous sale (“Members of a Noble Family”), James Vallance, Dublin, June 5–6, 1806, one of lots 40, 41, 42, or 43 by John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford (1766–1839), Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire, 1806;
By descent in the family;
Purchased at their sale, On the instructions of His Grace The Duke of Bedford, removed from Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire; in the case of Heirlooms sold with the consent of the Trustees, Christie's, London, January 19, 1951, lot 73, along with its pendant; as Jan Wynants and Johannes Lingelbach, by W. Sabin.
Purchased at anonymous sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, March 21, 2002, lot 99 by a private collector, Austria, 2002–2024 [1].
Consigned from a private collection, Austria, to Ben Elwes Fine Art, London, 2024;
Purchased from Ben Elwes Fine Art, London, by Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 2024.

[1] This work was offered for sale at Sotheby’s, London, December 6, 2023, lot 39, but failed to sell.

London, British Institution, no. 8 (along with its pendant, no. 6), 1824.

George Scharf, A descriptive and historical catalogue of the collection of pictures at Woburn Abbey (London: 1875), no. 93 (along with its pendant, no. 92).

Klaus Eisele, Jan Wijnants (1631/32–1684): ein Niederländerischer Maler der Ideallandschaft im Goldenen Jahrhundert: mit umfassendem Oeuvrekatalog (Stuttgart, Germany: RB, 2000), 181, no. 260, (repro.).