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Meindert Hobbema
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description
- Meindert Hobbema
- A landscape with a stream, cottages in a wood, and a peasant with his dog on a path
- oil on panel
Provenance
With D. Katz, Dieren, circa 1930;
Rynland, 1936;
With Martin Porkay, Munich, 1964;
Sold, London, Christie's, December 8, 1989, lot 70, where purchased by the present owner.
Rynland, 1936;
With Martin Porkay, Munich, 1964;
Sold, London, Christie's, December 8, 1989, lot 70, where purchased by the present owner.
Exhibited
Vaud, Switzerland, Château de Grandson, Summer 1955, no. 42.
Literature
G. Broulheit, Meindert Hobbema, 1938, p. 406, cat. no. 216, reproduced p. 210.
Condition
The following condition report has been provided by Simon Parkes of Simon Parkes Art Conservation, Inc. 502 East 74th St. New York, NY 212-734-3920, simonparkes@msn.com , an independent restorer who is not an employee of Sotheby's.
This panel has been cradled. The paint layer is stable and has been cleaned, varnished and retouched. Slight instability has occurred in the lower left corner where a small blister has developed. An original join in the panel running through the landscape in the lower half of the picture has been restored. There is retouching in the center of the sky in the left and while there may be other restorations beneath an older varnish, they neither show under ultraviolet light, nor are they visible to the naked eye. There is slight thinness or deterioration of the paint layer here and there, in the trees particularly, yet overall the condition is respectable and with a small amount of attention, the picture could be hung as is.
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"This lot is offered for sale subject to Sotheby's Conditions of Business, which are available on request and printed in Sotheby's sale catalogues. The independent reports contained in this document are provided for prospective bidders' information only and without warranty by Sotheby's or the Seller."
Catalogue Note
Meindert Hobbema was one of the great Dutch landscape painters of the later seventeenth century. His early work reflects the influences of Cornelis Vroom and Salomon van Ruysdael, but after 1662 he takes his model as Jacob Ruisdael, with whom he studied. However, unlike Ruisdael he restricted his range, limiting himself almost exclusively to wooded scenes with rich foliage. Within these self-imposed boundaries he displayed an almost infinite variety of composition. Here a traveler and his dog walk slowly up the winding river road; to their right a group of ramshackle buildings are piled one upon the other and seem almost to have been taken over by the surrounding woods.