CORNELIS SYMONSZ. VAN DER SCHALCKE | A DUNE LANDSCAPE WITH PEASANTS AND GYPSIES RESTING AND CONVERSING

With Galerie Internationale, The Hague, circa 1930;

H.F. Collings, Surrey;

By whom sold, London, Christie's, 1 April 1938, lot 48 (as Van Goyen), for 36 Guineas to Heather;

Christianus Theodorus Franciscus Thurkow (1882–1970), The Hague, by 1963;

Louise Thurkow-van Huffel (1900–87), The Hague, from whom acquired.

Dordrecht, Dordrechts Museum, Nederlandse Landschappen uit de Zeventiende Eeuw, 6 July – 2 September 1963, no. 116.

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L.J. Bol, Holländische Maler des 17. Jahrhunderts, Munich 1982, p. 176, reproduced fig. 169;

H.-U. Beck, Künstler um Jan van Goyen. Maler und Zeichner, Doornspijk 1991, p. 388, cat. no. 1085.

Cornelis Symonsz. van der Schalcke was born, worked and died in Haarlem. There are few surviving works, and these are almost all landscapes. His paintings show the influence of Adriaen van Ostade, Pieter Molijn and, later, Van Goyen, Van Ruisdael and Rembrandt, to the extent that they have often been overlooked and mistaken for the work of other artists.[1]

1 See I.Q. Van Regteren Altena, ‘Cornelis Symonsz. Van der Shalcke’, in Oud Holland, vol. XLIII, 1926, pp. 49–61.