One night in 1957 something doesn’t seem quite right with the painting. He particularly admires the haunting quality of the scene that depicts a young girl emerging from a snowy thicket above a frozen river.
He knows every inch of the canvas, studying it every night in his Manhattan apartment.
Nevertheless de Groot values his family heirloom. New York lawyer Marty de Groot is the latest member of his family to take possession of a Dutch landscape painting called ‘ At the Edge of a Wood’.’ It’s believed to be the only surviving work by Sara de Vos, a Dutch painter in the seventeenth century who was one of the few women admitted to the prestigious Guild of St Luke.įamily legend holds that the painting is “cursed”, responsible for the “300 years of gout, rheumatism, heart failure, intermittent barrenness and stroke in his bloodline.” Ever since Pieter de Groot bought it at auction in in 1637, none of its owners has lived past the age of 60.
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