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Willem Koekkoek Dutch, 1839-1895
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 EUR
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Description
- Willem Koekkoek
- figures on a frozen canal in a dutch town
signed l.r.
- oil on canvas
- 44 by 60 cm.
Catalogue Note
Like his brother Hermanus, Willem Koekkoek was a pupil of his father, the renowned marine painter Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek. He was raised in Amsterdam and specialised exclusively in town views. As a true representative of Romantic painting, Koekkoek focussed on the picturesque side of Dutch towns. The present lot exemplifies this, featuring one of his most successful subjects: a view of an old historic town on a wintry day with figures on a frozen canal.
Koekkoek worked in many different towns, but topgraphical accuracy was never his prime goal. He took the liberty to embellish reality, to adjust it to his own vision. In the nineteenth century this was common practice, as can be seen in the town views of Adrianus Eversen, Cornelis Springer and Charles Leickert, to name just a few.
Up to this day, Willem Koekkoek's work is very much liked for the lively composition and the mood of nostalgia, in which the Golden Age seems to linger on.
Koekkoek worked in many different towns, but topgraphical accuracy was never his prime goal. He took the liberty to embellish reality, to adjust it to his own vision. In the nineteenth century this was common practice, as can be seen in the town views of Adrianus Eversen, Cornelis Springer and Charles Leickert, to name just a few.
Up to this day, Willem Koekkoek's work is very much liked for the lively composition and the mood of nostalgia, in which the Golden Age seems to linger on.