Rest by the Water
Nicolaes Berchem (Haarlem 1620 - Amsterdam 1683), workshop
Lot-No. 399
Proceeds : 2.000 €
Oil/canvas, 51,5 x 72 cm, lo. le. faint fragment of a signature, min. rest., relined. - B. is a main master of Dutch landscape painting. After initial training with his father, the still life painter Pieter Claesz. followed a long stay in Italy, which became formative for B.'s style and motifs. His depictions of pastoral scenes in a southern landscape are among the masterpieces of Dutch painting of the Golden Age. Mus.: Amsterdam (Rijksmus.), Dresden (Gem.-Gal. Alter Meister), London (Wallace Coll.), Haarlem (Frans Hals Mus.) a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit, Bernt, P. Biesboer: N.B. a. others.
Nicolaes Berchem: Rest by the Water
Nicolaes Berchem (Haarlem 1620 - Amsterdam 1683), workshop
Rest by the Water
Lot-No. 399
Proceeds : 2.000 €
Oil/canvas, 51,5 x 72 cm, lo. le. faint fragment of a signature, min. rest., relined. - B. is a main master of Dutch landscape painting. After initial training with his father, the still life painter Pieter Claesz. followed a long stay in Italy, which became formative for B.'s style and motifs. His depictions of pastoral scenes in a southern landscape are among the masterpieces of Dutch painting of the Golden Age. Mus.: Amsterdam (Rijksmus.), Dresden (Gem.-Gal. Alter Meister), London (Wallace Coll.), Haarlem (Frans Hals Mus.) a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit, Bernt, P. Biesboer: N.B. a. others.
