Lot 62
  • 62

Johannes Christiaan Karel Klinkenberg Dutch, 1852-1924

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • Johannes Christiaan Karel Klinkenberg
  • Van Dam's almhouse in the Juffrouw Idastraat, The Hague
  • signed l.r.
  • oil on panel
  • 34 by 49 cm.

Provenance

(probably) Goupil & Cie, The Hague, inv.no. 9257, 6 August 1874, sold to S.H. Boddington (?) for Dfl 145,-, as Hospice à La Haye (cf. sale-ledgers Goupil, R.K.D. The Hague)

Literature

Cf. Hanna Pennock a.o., Museum Mesdag. Catalogue of Paintings and Drawings, Zwolle 1996, no. 168, pp. 249-250
Drs. E.A. Kallenborn, Verslagonderzoek naar Klinkenberg's Hofje van Van Dam, October 2000, Archives Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam

Condition

The panel is solid and straight. A tiny filled-in haircrack (ca. 1 cm.) through the leg of the bench on to the left. A few retouched specks above the head of the man on the left. A few retouched specks near the upper right corner and below the oval window on the right. Otherwise in good condition.
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Catalogue Note

Executed circa 1873