Malcolm Franklin, Chicago;
Private collection, Palm Beach, Florida;
Whence sold anonymously, New York, Christie's, 18 June 1982, lot 79;
With Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York;
From whom bought by the present owner (Offered London, Christie's, 6 December 2007, lot 63, e🍌stimate £300,000-500,000, where unsold🥃).

Munich, Haus der Kunst, Im Licht von Claude Lorrain.  Landschaftsmalerei aus drei Jahrhunderten, 12 March-29 May 1983, nos. 121-2.

A. Blankert (ed.), Nederlandse 17^e eeuwse italianiserende landschap schilders, exhibition catalogue, Soest-Utrecht, 1965, p. 247;
D. Coeckelberghs, "H.-F. Van Lint copiste et imitateur de Claude Lorrain", in Revue des Achéologues et Historiens d'Art de Louvain, 1971, p. 185;
A. Busiri Vici, Peter, Hendrik e Giacomo Van Lint.  Tre pittori di Anversa del '600 e '700 lavorano a Roma, Rome 1987, pp. 230-1, nos. 275-6, reproduced.

"The following condition report has been provided by Sarah Walden, an independent restorer who is not an employee of Sotheby's. These two paintings have been quite recently lined and restored, with firm recent stretchers. The lining has preserved the texture well and they are structurally perfectly secure with no accidental damages at all. They have clearly always been carefully protected. A Sacrificial Procession. Signed and dated 1738. The fine detail is beautifully intact generally, especially in the figures and in the lovely distant lake and along the horizon. Some of the denser foliage may be slightly less immaculately crisp, and there are a few minute superficial marks in the sky, with one minute chip in the central cloud and a little retouching in the top right corner. There is also a little scuffed place in the signature. However these are marginal imperfections in a remarkably intact painting. Bacchic Revels. This pendant is also in exceptionally good condition, with if anything even more beautifully preserved detail in the figures and foliage. There is one little strengthening retouching on the bank in the middle distance at centre right, and a few minor touches in the craquelure of the central clouds. The beautiful condition of both paintings reflects the care with which they have always been treated as well as the fine original technique. This report was not done under laboratory conditions."
"This lot is offered for sale subject to Sotheby's Conditions of Business, which are available on request and printed in Sotheby's sale catalogues. The independent reports contained in this document are provided for prospective bidders' information only and without warranty by Sotheby's or the Seller."

These highly accomplished paintings are mature works by Van Lint, dating from the late 1730s or 1740s.  In earlier works Van Lint frequently collaborated with figure painters who supplied the staffage, such as Giuseppe Chiari, Sebastiano Conca, Corrado Giaquinto, Mengs, Manglard, Subleyras and Pompeo Batoni.  As Edgar Peter Bowron has observed however, the staffage in the present pair, though based on earlier types supplied by Batoni, are from the hand of Van Lint, who by the late 1730s was a figure painter capable enough not to seek recorse to staffage specialists.¹

1.  Cited in the 2007 Christie's sale catalogue; see under provenance.