Lot 188
  • 188

Jacob van Strij

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Jacob van Strij
  • winter landscape with a peasant couple and dog on the ice to the right, and a boy pulling a sledge to the left
  • Pen and black and brown ink and gray wash, over black chalk, within black ink framing lines;
    signed, lower left: J: van Stry

Provenance

Sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 14 November 1988, lot 158;
sale, Amsterdam, Christie's, 25 November 1992, lot 689;
Robert and Angelique Noortman, sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 18 December 2007, lot 537

Condition

Narrow light brown stain along top edge, from old adhesive. Some other light foxing throughout. Otherwise good. Sold in a 17th-century-style black wood frame.
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Catalogue Note

Many of Jacob van Strij's landscapes are clearly inspired by, if not directly copied from, the works of his great Dordrecht antecedant, Aelbert Cuyp, but this is one of his more spontaneous, totally independent inventions.  Here, we see the artist representing the subject of a winter landscape, so familiar from 17th-century Dutch paintings, but doing so very much in the idiom of his own time.  Similar motifs of peasant families gathering firewood are found in other winter landscapes by Van Strij, such as the fine example in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem.1

1.  Inv. nr. X 58; see In helder licht. Abraham en Jacob van Strij, exhib. cat., Dordrecht, Dordrechts Museum and Enschede, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, 2000, no. 167, reproduced p. 186, fig. 270.