拍品 203
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HENDRICK VAN DER BURCH | A guardroom interior

估價
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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描述

  • A guardroom interior 
  • oil on canvas
  • 23 5/8  by 28 3/4  in.; 60 by 73 cm. 

來源

Possibly anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Theodorus Spaan, 13 June 1809, lot 9.

出版

P. Sutton, "Hendrick van der Burch," in Burlington Magazine, May 1980, no. 126, p. 320, note 27, reproduced p. 317, fig. 40;
P. Sutton, Pieter de Hooch, Ithaca 1980, pp. 13, 52, 60, note 11, 141, under cat. no. D17, reproduced fig. 4.

Condition

The canvas has an old and thin relining and is stable on its stretcher. The painting reads well beneath an old and slightly discolored varnish. Inspection under UV reveals a milky varnish that impedes some inspection. It also reveals some retouching to the extreme edges of the painting, likely due to old frame abrasion, as well as an area of retouching (about 3 by 4 inches) near the center of the right edge. There are only very few fine strokes and small spots of retouching visible under UV light, for example, one spot in the upper right background, some strokes near the chin and in the hat of the seated figure at left holding the mug, one spot in the head of the standing figure at left, one small spot in the background at left, and some strokes of strengthening in and around the hats of the figures in the background at center. The painting might benefit from a light clean, but can certainly also hang as is. Offered in a decoratively carved giltwood frame.
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拍品資料及來源

Although Pieter de Hooch is not known to have had students, he directly influenced a number of his contemporaries, among the most important being Hendrick van der Burch, who was a professional and personal contact of de Hooch's in Delft.  Both were regularly recorded in that city as witnesses for the notary Frans Boogert from as early as 1652, and they seem to have been related through marriage with De Hooch's union with a Jannetje van der Burch in 1654.1  Even though many works have been mistakenly attributed to Van der Burch in the past, the present painting, clearly inspired by De Hooch's guardroom scenes and likely dating to earlier in Van der Burch's career, is highly characteristic of his output and stands out in quality within the group of works now securely given to him.  Notably strong details within this interior, filled with a group of merrymaking figures in the foreground and another near the hearth in the background, include the brightly colored feathered hat in the smoker's lap at left, the discarded armor and clothing at right, and the sweet little dog at center.  In dimensions and description, this painting is identical with one sold in Amsterdam in 1809, and an attribution to this relatively obscure painter at that time likely arose from an early signature or a noteworthy tradition.2  

1. See Sutton 1980, in Literature, p. 319. 
2. Oil on canvas, 23 by 29 inches, "In het Binnengezigt van een Coyn de Garde zitten drie Officieren te rooken en te drinken; agter hun een ander krijgsman in een vrolijke houding met een Glad in de hand; vier ander Beelden en eigenaartig bijwerk..."  See ibid., p. 320, note 27.