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ISAAK VAN NICKELEN | A PALACE COLONNADE WITH ELEGANT FIGURES AND TWO DOGS, WITH A VIEW OF A FOUNTAIN AND OTHER ARCHITECTURE IN THE DISTANCE

Auction Closed

May 22, 08:55 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection

ISAAK VAN NICKELEN

(Haarlem 1632/3 - 1703)

A PALACE COLONNADE WITH ELEGANT FIGURES AND TWO DOGS, WITH A VIEW OF A FOUNTAIN AND OTHER ARCHITECTURE IN THE DISTANCE

oil on panel

signed indistinctly with monogram lower left: IVN(?)

19½ by 27 in.; 49.6 by 68.6 cm.

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 5 July 2000, lot 147;

Anonymous sale, Vienna, Dorotheum, 15 October 2013, lot 570;

There acquired.

The Haarlem-based artist Isaack van Nickelen specialized in architectural views recognizable for their single vanishing points and an exaggerated perspective. As visible in the present painting, such techniques allowed for an intense recession of space. Here, the floor tiles and the recessing columns of this colonnade with soaring arches leads the eye deep into the picture plane. This recession is paralleled on the left by a glistening water feature with a fountain and a landscape that also seem to extend as far as the eye can see.