Lot 47
  • 47

Hendrik Barend Koekkoek Dutch, 1849-1909

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 EUR
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Description

  • Hendrik Barend Koekkoek
  • peasants near a farm stead; travellers in a summer landscape (a pair)
  • one signed l.r.; the other signed l.l.
  • both oil on canvas
  • each 40 by 60 cm (2) (unframed)

Condition

Both original canvassses. Both with multiple patches to the reverse and stretchermarks visible. Scattered retouches specks throughout. The second with a restored L-shaped tear in the figures of approximately 8 cm and a horizontal restored tear of approximately 4 cm in the trees on the right. both works would benefit from cleaning.
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Catalogue Note

A handwritten label with the artist's seal on the reverse of the first painting reads: This Picture is warranted to be painted by me H.B. Koekkoek. The handwriting of a similar label with the artist's seal on the reverse of the second painting is illegible.