Frederik Marinus Kruseman artwork • painting • previously for sale Harvest month, August
Frederik Marinus Kruseman
Haarlem 1816-1882 Sint-Gillis (Brussel)
1816-1882
Harvest month, August
oil on panel 28.5 x 38.5 cm, signed l.r. and dated 1850
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: coll. Sir Ralph Cusack, Queens Council, Newcastle upon Tyne, Groot-Brittannië; veiling Sir Ralph Cusack, Londen, 16 juni 1978, lotnr. 28; veiling Sotheby's, Londen, 25 maart 1981, lotnr. 32; veiling Christie’s, Londen, 25 febr. 1983, lotnr. 154; veiling Sotheby's, Londen, 22 juni 1983, lotnr. 134; coll. Jef Rademakers, Brasschaat, België.
Literature: Marjan van Heteren, Jan de Meere, ‘Frederik Marinus Kruseman 1816-1882. Painter of Pleasing Landscapes’, Schiedam 1998, pag. 80, afb. 32 en pag. 172, cat.nr. 58 (als ‘Summer landscape with harvesting farmers near a windmill’); Peter Carpreau e.a., ‘Een Romantische Kijk. De Rademakers Collectie’, Brussel 2011, pag. 88, cat.nr. 33; Jef Rademakers, Guido de Werd, ‘Een Romantische Reis: Meesterwerken uit de Rademakers Collectie/A Romantic Journey: Masterpieces from the Rademakers Collection’, Eindhoven 2014, pag. 48, cat 47 (4).
Exhibited: 'Een Romantische Kijk', Sint-Petersburg, Rusland, State Hermitage Museum, 29 okt. 2010-6 febr. 2011/Den Haag, Haags Gemeentemuseum, 26 maart-5 juni 2011/Leuven, België, M-Museum, 24 juni-4 sept. 2011/Kleef, Duitsland, B.C. Koekkoek-Huis, 25 sept. 2011-29 jan. 2012/Helsinki, Finland, Sinebrychoff Museum of Art, 26 sept. 2012-13 jan. 2013; 'Een Romantische Reis: Meesterwerken uit de Rademakers collectie/A Romantic Journey: Masterpieces from the Rademakers Collection', Luxemburg, Musée National d'Histoire et d'Art, 3 april-14 sept. 2014/‘s-Hertogenbosch, Het Noordbrabants Museum, 11 okt. 2014-25 jan. 2015.
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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