Wonderful Holiday Auction
Lot 155:
Description
Keywords: pastoral scene, idyllic landscape, classical figures, warm color palette, Baroque period, Dutch School, golden sunset, old master, riverbank, allegorical painting
Oil Painting on Panel Figures Bathing in a Classical Landscape. Inscribed and dated ‘Polenberg / 1640’ on verso
Measurement: Art: 8 3/4 x 11 1/8 in. (22.2 x 28.3 cm.), Frame: 14 3/4 x 17 in. (37.5 x 43.2 cm.)
Notes provided by consignor:
Cornelis van Poelenburgh’s Paysage aux cinq baigneuses, upon which the present work is based, is held at the Musée du Louvre in Paris (INV 1697; MR 918). Since the present work features the reverse of the original composition, it was likely based on a print of Poelenburgh’s painting – possibly the one by Jacques-Philippe Le Bas (1707-1783) at the British Museum (1861, 1109.232).
This work has been examined via digital images by the Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD).
Category: 10
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No major issues noted. Wear commensurate with age.
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