Barend Cornelis Koekkoek artwork • painting • previously for sale A wooded landscape with a chapel at sunset
Barend Cornelis Koekkoek
Middelburg 1803-1862 Kleef (Duitsland)
1803-1862
A wooded landscape with a chapel at sunset
oil on panel 97.3 x 80.4 cm, signed l.r. and dated 1850
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: coll. H.C. du Bois, Den Haag; veiling Frederik Muller & Co., Amsterdam, 4 juni 1907, lotnr. 98 (met afb.); coll. graaf G.J.Ch.G. van Aldenburg Bentinck, Amerongen; veiling Venduhuis der Notarissen, Den Haag, 4 nov. 1969, lotnr. 29; veiling Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 25 mei 1971, lotnr. 365 (met afb.); coll. Emile Unterberger, Duitsland; part. bezit Nederland; part. coll. Groot-Brittannië.
Literature: mogelijk: Friedrich von Boetticher, 'Malerwerke des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts', Dresden 1891-1901, vol. I.2, pag. 761, nr. 7 ('Sommerlandschaft, Waldgegend mit Kapelle'); F. Gorissen, 'B.C. Koekkoek 1803-1862. Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde', Düsseldorf 1962, cat.nr. 50/97 (met afb.); A. Nollert, 'Barend Cornelis Koekkoek (1803-1862): Prins der Landschapschilders', Dordrecht/Kleef/Zwolle 1997, pag. 50, pag. 52, afb. 53, pag. 126, cat.nr. 46 (idem in de Duitse uitgave).
Exhibited: mogelijk: Berlijn, 'Berliner Akademische Kunstausstellung', 1850.
Barend Cornelis Koekkoek is the most famous Dutch Romantic painter. He trained with his father, J.H. Koekkoek, and also took lessons at the art academy in Middelburg. He later lived in Amsterdam and Hilversum, but also travelled widely in the Netherlands, Belgium and the Rhineland, seeking motifs for his idealised romantic landscapes. In 1843, Koekkoek settled permanently in the German town of Cleves, where he also founded a drawing academy. Exceptionally gifted, Koekkoek was a much admired painter, with long waiting lists of people willing to bide their time for years to own one of his beloved landscapes.
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