Property from a French Private Collection (lots 3, 7, 14, 17, 21, 22, 24, 25, 27, 31, 33, 34, 37)
Hunters in a wooded landscape
Auction Closed
June 11, 01:34 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
Alexander Keirincx
Antwerp 1600 - 1652 Amsterdam
Hunters in a wooded landscape
Oil on panel
Signed and dated lower center A. KEIRINCX Ao 1619
37,7 x 56,3 cm ; 14⅞ by 22⅛ in.
This fine panel, signed and dated 1619 and in very good condition, bears on the reverse the mark of the Antwerp panel-maker Guilliam Aertssen, active between 1612 and 1626, thus corroborating the date applied by the painter himself.
The year 1619 was a key date for Keirincx: this was when he was admitted to the Guild of St Luke in Antwerp. The work can therefore be assigned to the very earliest part of his career, before he left Antwerp for Utrecht and then London, where he stayed for several years, working for Charles I, before settling there permanently.
As is often the case with Keirincx, the subject – gentlemen hunting with dogs and a falcon – is in fact a pretext for a composition featuring a magnificent and lush forest landscape.
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