Lot 200
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Jan Hoynck van Papendrecht Dutch, 1858-1933

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15,000 - 20,000 EUR
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Description

  • Jan Hoynck van Papendrecht
  • picnic after the parade, bois de Boulogne
  • signed and dated 1906 l.r.
  • oil on canvas
  • 96,5 by 161 cm.

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Venduhuis der Notarissen, Rotterdam, 1951, where bought by the present owner.

Exhibited

Amsterdam, Maatschappij Arti et Amicitiae, 1906.
Paris, Salon de la Societé des Artistes français, 1907.

Literature

J.A.C. Bartels, Jan Hoynck van Papendrecht, 1986, pp. 35/6 and  illustrated on p. 94

Catalogue Note

Picnic after the Parade, Bois de Boulogne is in its subject matter and style a unique work in the oeuvre of the artist. Hoynck van Papendrecht demonstrates himself here as a painter of modern life, in accordance with the advise given to painters by Emile Zola in the 1880´s "il faut être de son temps". He qualifies himself here as a painter of international rank among colleagues such as Adolf von Menzel (1815-1905), Edouard Détaille (1848-1912), Ernest Meissonnier (1815-1891) and others, who like Hoynck had turned the military genre into their speciality.

The scene depicted is a picnic of French gardistes in the Bois de Boulogne after their parade on the occasion of quatorze juillet. In the background is the sunlit area of the horse path of Longchamp, where the parade took place. Hoynck van Papendrecht witnessed this event during his trip to Paris, in 1904. His impressions were recorded in numerous sketches, which formed the basis for the present picture, executed two years later.

Hoynck van Papendrecht probably intended the picture for the Paris Salon. His composition clearly recalls Edouard Manet´s famous depiction of a picnic in the Bois de Boulogne of 1863, Le dejeuner sur l’herbe of 1863. Before sending the picture to Paris, Hoynck van Papendrecht must have decided to try it out first in his own artist´s society Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam in 1906. At the Salon the following year the picture gained enormous success and received a ´mention honorée'. The Figaro of the 15th of May 1907 wrote : "Le meilleur tableau de soldats français est dû à un Hollandais, mr. Hoynck van Papendrecht, de qui le nom est malheureusement trop difficile à prononcer pour avoir chance de devenir aussi populaire que celui de mr. Detaille. Ce léger défaut est compensé par les riches qualités de la peinture, la justesse d´effet de ces troupes, se reposant ´après la revue´ sous les arbres de Longchamp".