Frederik Marinus Kruseman artwork • painting • previously for sale A woody country road along a village
Frederik Marinus Kruseman
Haarlem 1816-1882 Sint-Gillis (Brussel)
1816-1882
A woody country road along a village
oil on panel 29.5 x 41.0 cm, painted in 1857
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: dochter van de schilder B.C. Koekkoek; Mr. Wiggan, Yorkshire, Groot-Brittannië; Mr. E.C. Wiggan, Groot-Brittannië; veiling Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., Londen, 24 nov. 1982, lotnr. 14 (als B.C. Koekkoek); kunsthandel Thos. Agnew & Sons Londen (de voorgaande herkomstgegevens wordt door drs. Guido de Werd ontkend); Kunsthaus Bühler, Stuttgart, Duitsland (als B.C. Koekkoek); part. coll. Duitsland.
Literature: vgl.: Marjan van Heteren, Jan de Meere, 'Frederik Marinus Kruseman 1816-1882: Painter of Pleasing Landscapes', Schiedam 1998, pag. 182, cat.nr. 115 (met afb.).
Exhibited: Kleef, Duitsland, B.C. Koekkoek-Huis, ter onderzoek in depot in 1982
Kruseman learned from B.C. Koekkoek how to compose a romantic landscape. Having been trained by N.J. Roosenboom and Jan van Ravenswaaij, Kruseman went to Kleve, Germany, in 1837 to perfect the art of painting under B.C. Koekkoek. A frozen canal with skaters, walkers on a towpath, a small picturesque castle and jagged bare trees are all recurring motifs in Kruseman’s winter scenes. He also painted dreamy summer landscapes with finely elaborated trees and populated with cattle and a few simple hunters and peasants.
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