CORNELIS GERRITSZ. DECKER | A FORGE WITH BLACKSMITHS AT WORK
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Property from the SØR Rusche Collection
CORNELIS GERRITSZ. DECKER
? 1610/20 - 1678 Haarlem
A FORGE WITH BLACKSMITHS AT WORK
signed and dated lower centre: JDecker / .1644. (JD in ligature)
oil on oak panel
unframed: 40.4 x 32.3 cm.; 15⅞ x 12¾ in.
framed: 44 x 51.5 cm.; 17¼ x 20¼ in.
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Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Paul Brandt, 11–12 December 1962, lot 504;
Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby's Mak van Waay, 8 December 1980, lot 158, when acquired.
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H.-J. Raupp (ed.), Niederländische Malerei des. 17. Jahrhunderts der SØR Rusche-Sammlung, vol. 2, Genre, Münster/Hamburg/London 1996, pp. 94–97, cat. no. 21, reproduced in colour.
Cornelis Decker was probably a pupil of Salomon Ruysdael and was a member of the Haarlem guild in 1643. He is best known for his Haarlem landscapes close in style to Roelof van Vries and Salomon Rombouts. Far less commonly, he produced pictures of workshops, as exemplified by the present picture.