Lot Essay
In the original carved and painted wooden frame
See colour illustration
See colour illustration
The following four lots consist of overdoors probably executed for a mansion in The Hague, the exact location of which is no longer known. The style of the pictures and their subject matter have been described by E.J. Sluyter (Hendrik Willem Schweickhardt (1746-1797), Oud Holland, LXXXIX, 1975, p. 152) as typical for The Hague in the later half of the eighteenth century. Schweickhardt here displays the influence of his master, Dirk van der Aa who had, as early as 1766 in a set of overdoors for Palace Lange Voorhout, displayed a knowledge of the work of Boucher (see Sluijter, op.cit., p. 154, note 60). The first to introduce the genre in The Hague was the Swiss painter Johann Heinrich Keller (1692-1765) in the overdoors for the Palace Lange Voorhout executed as early as 1751 (see Sluijter, op.cit., p. 152, note 52)
Hendrick Willem Schweickhardt (1747-1797)
Details
Hendrick Willem Schweickhardt (1747-1797)
Children playing with a hoop, others holding a basket of flowers, in a landscape - an overdoor
signed upper right HW Schweickhardt/1772, oil on canvas, arched top 57.1 x 166.8 cm
Children playing with a hoop, others holding a basket of flowers, in a landscape - an overdoor
signed upper right HW Schweickhardt/1772, oil on canvas, arched top 57.1 x 166.8 cm
Provenance
with Joseph M. Morpurgo, Amsterdam, 1962
Literature
E.J. Sluijter, op.cit., p. 154 under note 3
Exhibited
Delft, Stedelijk Museum het Prinsenhof, Oude Kunst en Antiekbeurs, 1962