Cornelis Springer artwork • painting • for sale A sunny view of the Hoofdwacht at the Grote Markt in Zwolle

Cornelis Springer

Amsterdam 1817-1891 Hilversum

1817-1891

A sunny view of the Hoofdwacht at the Grote Markt in Zwolle
oil on panel 54.5 x 44.2 cm, signed l.r. with monogram and dated '59

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Cornelis Springer

Amsterdam 1817-1891 Hilversum

A sunny view of the Hoofdwacht at the Grote Markt in Zwolle
oil on panel 54.5 x 44.2 cm, signed l.r. with monogram and dated '59

Provenance: rechtstreeks verworven van de kunstenaar door J.C. van Pappelendam, Amsterdam, op 31 augustus 1869 (voor 550,- fl.); part. bezit Nederland; in bruikleen Provinciaal Overijssels Museum (POM), Zwolle; veiling Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 21 okt. 2003, lotnr. 187, alwaar verworven door de vorige eigenaar (part. bezit Duitsland).

Literature: W. Laanstra, H.C. de Bruijn. J.H.A. Ringeling, 'Cornelis Springer (1817-1891)', Utrecht 1984, pag. 164, cat.nr. 69-9 (met afb., als 'De Markt en Hoofdwacht te Zwolle in het midden van de 17de eeuw, bij zomer', foutief gedateerd); POMflet, uitgave van Provinciaal Overijssels Museum, okt. 1981; Willem Laanstra, 'Cornelis Springer. Geschilderde Steden', Amsterdam 1994, pag. 66 (met afb. in kleur, foutief gedateerd).

Exhibited: Amsterdam, kunsthandel Gebroeders Douwes, 'Cornelis Springer', 3 maart -2 april 1984, cat.nr. 58.

Cornelis Springer mainly painted town and village scenes in which facades and staffage are bathed in warm sunlight. Together with Barend Cornelis Koekkoek and Andreas Schelfhout, he belongs to the leading painters of Dutch Romanticism. Springer often assigns a prominent place to 17th and 18th century buildings in his paintings. Sometimes this is in the form of an imaginative piece of architecture, but in most cases these were existing buildings in which people rediscovered their beauty in around 1850. Springer first made a detailed sketch of these buildings which he later reworked into a painting.