Quality in Detail. The Juli and Andrew Wieg Collection
Quality in Detail. The Juli and Andrew Wieg Collection
François Verwilt
Cows, goats and sheep in and around a barn
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March 24, 02:38 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
François Verwilt
Rotterdam circa 1620 - 1691
Cows, goats and sheep in and around a barn
signed centre right on the well: F.v.wilt
oil on oak panel
unframed: 59.8 x 71.5 cm.; 23 1/2 x 28 1/8 in.
framed: 80 x 91 cm.; 31 1/2 x 35 7/8 in.
Château de Remaisnil, Picardy, France;
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 8 February 1978, lot 86, where acquired.
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 8 February 1978, lot 86, where acquired.
S. van Heugten, in Meesterlijk vee: Nederlandse veeschilders 1600-1900, exh. cat., Dordrecht 1988, pp. 192-94, cat. no. 38, reproduced in colour p. 192.
Dordrecht, Dordrechts Museum, 25 September - 20 November 1988; Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, 3 December 1988 - 29 January 1989, Meesterlijk vee: Nederlandse veeschilders 1600-1900, no. 38.
François Verwilt studied in Utrecht with Cornelis van Poelenburgh (1594/5-1667) but spent most of his life in Rotterdam. Talented and eclectic, he experimented with many different genres and excelled in figure-filled Italianate landscapes, in which Van Poelenburgh's influence is most apparent. His genre paintings and pastoral landscapes, such as the present work, reveal that he was also sensitive to the Rotterdam school of painting, particularly the tradition of the almost monochrome stable interior, popularised by the brothers Cornelis (1607-81) and Herman Saftleven (1609-85).