keuraankunst

Andreas 'Andries' Schelfhout
Den Haag 1787-1870
Figures in a panoramic landscape, oil on panel 21,5 x 28,8 cm., signed l.l. and dated '49

Provenance: part. bezit Frankrijk.
Literature: tent.cat. Ede, Simonis & Buunk Kunsthandel, 'Onsterfelijk Schoon. De landschappen van Andreas Schelfhout (1787-1870) en zijn leerlingen', 2005, pag. 35 (met afb. in kleur); Ronald de Leeuw, Jenny Reynaerts, Benno Tempel (red.), 'Meesters van de Romantiek: Nederlandse kunstenaars 1800-1850', Zwolle 2005, pag. 299, afb. 299 (in kleur).

The winter ice scenes and summer landscapes of Andreas Schelfhout were already extremely popular during his own time. These were painted meticulously, with great technical refinement and with a pronounced feeling for anecdotal detail. He was the consummate artist in conveying the dry freezing cold of a winter’s day, or the sweet atmosphere of a summer landscape. Sometimes the livestock painter P.G. van Os added the cattle to his works. Along with B.C. Koekkoek, Schelfhout is the Netherlands’ most important romantic painter and his many pupils including C.H.J. Leickert, L.J. Kleijn, N.J. Roosenboom and, surprisingly enough, J.W. van Borselen and J.B. Jongkind.