Master Paintings
Master Paintings
Property from an American Private Collection
Arnold Boonen
Candlelit interior with a young man seated at a table, lighting his pipe
Auction Closed
May 25, 03:13 PM GMT
Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an American Private Collection
Arnold Boonen
Dordrecht 1669 - 1729 Amsterdam
Candlelit interior with a young man seated at a table, lighting his pipe
oil on canvas
canvas: 13¼ by 10⅞ in.; 33.7 by 27.6 cm.
framed: 18½ by 16 in.; 47 by 40.6 cm.
Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Christie's, 8 May 2007, lot 116;
With Johnny Van Haeften, London, 2007;
From whom acquired by the present owner.
Like his teacher, Godfried Schalcken, Arnold Boonen specialized in finely painted candlelit genre scenes. Here, Boonen combines the nocturne with the popular motif of smoking, which can signify a human vice as well as transience. Boonen's elite patrons, who included Tsar Peter the Great of Russia, marveled at the naturalism of the artist's treatment of different light sources and reflective surfaces, such as the silver tankard on the table.