DIRCK WIJNTRACK | A CASTLE MOAT WITH A SWAN, VARIOUS DUCKS AND A HERON IN THE FOREGROUND, AND A MAGPIE IN A TREE
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Property from the SØR Rusche Collection
DIRCK WIJNTRACK
Heusden (?) before 1645 - 1678 The Hague
A CASTLE MOAT WITH A SWAN, VARIOUS DUCKS AND A HERON IN THE FOREGROUND, AND A MAGPIE IN A TREE
signed and dated on the tree branch centre right: D Wijntrack 16[...]
oil on oak panel
unframed: 90.6 x 124.5 cm.; 35⅝ x 49 in.
framed: 119 x 152 cm.; 46¾ x 59¾ in.
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Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 26 October 1990, lot 115;
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 3 July 1991, lot 227, when acquired.
Rotterdam, Kunsthal, At Home in the Golden Age, 9 February – 18 May 2008, no. 12.
The SØR Rusche Collection has been exhibited extensively over the last two decades. Please click here for further information.
H.-J. Raupp (ed.), Niederländische Malerei des. 17. Jahrhunderts der SØR Rusche-Sammlung, vol. 5, Stilleben und Tierstücke, Münster/Hamburg/London 2004, pp. 268–71, cat. no. 61, reproduced in colour;
W. Pijbes, M. Aarts, M. J. Bok et al., At Home in the Golden Age, exh. cat., Zwolle 2008, p. 41, cat. no. 12, reproduced in colour.
Active in Schoonhoven, Gouda and from 1657 onwards in The Hague, Wijntrack specialised in painting animals in landscapes, farm interiors, and still lifes. He also provided staffage in landscapes by other artists such as Meindert Hobbema, Jan Wijnants and Joris van der Haagen. A comparable composition, also signed and smaller in size, depicting Ducks in a Landscape, is in the Museum Bredius, The Hague.[1]
1 inv. no. 131-1946; http://en.museumbredius.nl/product/wyntrack-dirck-ducks-in-a-landscape/