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Gillis Claesz. de Hondecoeter (Antwerp or Mechelen, c. 1575-1638 Amsterdam)
- A wooded river landscape with travellers and a dog on a path, cattle by a ford beyond; and A wooded river landscape with figures on a path

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Gillis Claesz. de Hondecoeter (Antwerp or Mechelen, c. 1575-1638 Amsterdam)
A wooded river landscape with travellers and a dog on a path, cattle by a ford beyond; and A wooded river landscape with figures on a path
Price Realized
(Set Currency)
  • £38,240
  • ($60,075)
  • Price includes buyer's premium
Estimate
    £30,000 - £40,000
  • ($47,130 - $62,840)

Sale Information

Sale 6652
OLD MASTER PICTURES
11 December 2002
London, King Street




Lot Description

Gillis Claesz. de Hondecoeter (Antwerp or Mechelen, c. 1575-1638 Amsterdam)
A wooded river landscape with travellers and a dog on a path, cattle by a ford beyond; and A wooded river landscape with figures on a path
both signed with initials and dated 'G·DH/1620' (DH linked, the first lower left, the second lower right)
oil on panel
7 7/8 x 10 3/8 in. (19.8 x 26.3 cm.)
a pair (2)

Special Notice

Christie's Interest in Property Consigned for Auction. From time to time, Christie's may offer a lot which it owns in whole or in part. This is such lot.

Provenance

Anon. Sale [The Property of a Gentleman], Phillips, London, 6 December 1994, lot 72 (£46,000 to the present owner).

Exhibited

Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Exposition du Paysage Flamande, Sept-Nov. 1926 (according to labels on the reverse).

Lot Notes

The artist was one of a number of landscapists who moved from the Southern Netherlands to the United Provinces at the beginning of the seventeenth century; in 1602 he was living in Utrecht, moving in 1610 to Amsterdam. Houbraken records that the young artist 'who had learned to paint in his youth for his own pleasure (as was common at the time), applied himself to portraiture to earn money, since he and his father found themselves stripped of their belongings'. None of his early portraiture is known to survive, however, and Houbraken notes that he soon 'turned to painting landscapes afterwards as well, taking Roelant Savery and David Vinckboons as his examples'.

The present pair of pictures, painted ten years after Hondecoeter's departure from Utrecht, demonstrate the abiding influence of the former artist. At the same time, Hondecoeter has, under the influence of his Dutch contemporaries, introduced a greater note of realism and concentration on the effects of light to denote space and distance. This fusion of influences is typical of Hondecoeter's work of the period; one might compare this pair with, for example, the landscape of 1618 in the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Brunswick, or that of 1620 in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.