Barend Cornelis Koekkoek artwork • painting • for sale Forest view with cattle
Barend Cornelis Koekkoek
Middelburg 1803-1862 Kleef (Duitsland)
1803-1862
Forest view with cattle
oil on panel 69.1 x 90.2 cm, signed l.r. and dated 1853
This painting is for sale.
price range: € 100.000 or above
Provenance: veiling H.G. Tersteeg, 's-Gravenhage, 10/11 nov. 1903, lotnr. 121; Galerie Heinemann, München, Duitsland, inv.nr. 8519; kunsthandel Richard Green, Londen, inv.nr. AS 125/SP1709 VE.
Literature: Friedrich Gorissen, 'Werkverzeichnis B.C. Koekkoek', Düsseldorf 1962, cat.nr. 53/68 (met afb.).
Exhibited: Almen, Museum STAAL, 'Bomen over bomen', 1 april 2023-24 maart 2024.
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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