Quality in Detail. The Juli and Andrew Wieg Collection
Quality in Detail. The Juli and Andrew Wieg Collection
François Ryckhals
Kitchen interior with a woman scouring pots and pans
Lot Closed
March 24, 02:26 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
François Ryckhals
Middelburg 1609 - 1647
Kitchen interior with a woman scouring pots and pans
indistinctly signed lower right on the trough: FRH[...] (FR in ligature)
oil on canvas
unframed: 44.5 x 61.8 cm.; 17 1/2 x 24 3/8 in.
framed: 60.5 x 77 cm.; 23 7/8 x 30 1/4 in.
Dr. Kodella, Graz;
His sale, Vienna, Gilhofer, 24 February 1921, lot 88;
Sale, Vienna, Kende, 24 May 1921, lot 175 (both the above as by H.M. Sorgh);
Sale, Stockholm, Stora Kvaliten, 25 November 1997, lot 1345;
Sale, London, Philips, 7 July 1998, lot 193 (as Studio of David Teniers);
With kunsthandel P. de Boer, Amsterdam, where acquired for the Wieg collection.
His sale, Vienna, Gilhofer, 24 February 1921, lot 88;
Sale, Vienna, Kende, 24 May 1921, lot 175 (both the above as by H.M. Sorgh);
Sale, Stockholm, Stora Kvaliten, 25 November 1997, lot 1345;
Sale, London, Philips, 7 July 1998, lot 193 (as Studio of David Teniers);
With kunsthandel P. de Boer, Amsterdam, where acquired for the Wieg collection.
J.H. Buma, François Ryckhals 1609-1647: een schilderende magiër uit Middelburg: 'Ryck in als', Goes 1994, p. 47, no. 57;
F.G. Meijer, in Franchoys Ryckhals: een Zeeuwse meester uit de Gouden Eeuw, exh. cat., Zierikzee 2019, pp. 87-88, reproduced in colour p. 89, fig. 120.
F.G. Meijer, in Franchoys Ryckhals: een Zeeuwse meester uit de Gouden Eeuw, exh. cat., Zierikzee 2019, pp. 87-88, reproduced in colour p. 89, fig. 120.
Most probably a pupil of Pieter De Bloot (1601-58), François Ryckhals' corpus was rediscovered and put together in 1917 when Abraham Bredius deciphered his complex monogram, which was previously associated with Frans Hals the Younger. Ryckhals lived between Middelburg and Dordrecht, and was a versatile painter specialising in several genres: landscapes, seascapes, mythological scenes, and elaborate still lives. The subjects he depicted most frequently, however, were genre and rural scenes, such as the kitchen interior in the present work, in which the influence of De Bloot is apparent.