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拍品專文
Bosboom was a great admirer of Wijnand Jan Joseph Nuijen (1813-1839), and was among the artists that initiated a monument in memory of Nuijen in 1840. After Nuijen's funeral in 1839, Bosboom undertook a journey following Nuijen's travels to the North of France, visiting Paris and Rouen (see also lot 174 in this sale). The French church interiors seen on his travels exerted a lifelong influence upon his work.
In 1840, at the age of 23, Bosboom received a prize in Antwerp for his painting of the organ in the church of Saint John's in 's Hertogenbosch, C. Dinkelaar, D. Kaatman, Johannes Bosboom (1817-1891) schilder van licht, schaduw en kleur, Laren, 1999, p. 31, fig. 3.05. His picture Lux in Tenebris, with the High Altar in the church of Saint Jacob of 1842 (Dinkelaar, Kaatman, op.cit., p. 214, KB 124-1, illustrated, now in a Dutch private collection) was very well received when first exhibited in that year at The Hague. It was later rewarded a silver medal at the exhibition in Brussels. The art critic of the Dutch magazine Kunstkronijk highly praised the picture: 'De schilder heeft hier door het effect het indrukwekkende van het bedehuis verhoogd... De spreuk Lux et Tenebris, boven de lijst, vormt met de schilderij alzoo een schoon geheel, en is niet, zoo als sommigen meenen, een ijdel versiersel. Wat een waarheid is de voorstelling, en hoe geheel is Bosboom voor dit vak berekend ?'.
The present lot would seem to be a preliminary study for the picture and may be that mentioned by Dinkelaar and Kaatman, op.cit., pp. 41 and 44, note 37.
Bosboom also did a finished watercolour of the subject but of smaller format (Dinkelaar, Kaatman, op.cit., p. 217, KBA 27-1). When Bosboom first met his future wife, the writer Geertruida Toussaint, in the summer of 1846, he offered her a choice of drawings from his portfolio. She choose the watercolour version of Lux in Tenebris
In 1840, at the age of 23, Bosboom received a prize in Antwerp for his painting of the organ in the church of Saint John's in 's Hertogenbosch, C. Dinkelaar, D. Kaatman, Johannes Bosboom (1817-1891) schilder van licht, schaduw en kleur, Laren, 1999, p. 31, fig. 3.05. His picture Lux in Tenebris, with the High Altar in the church of Saint Jacob of 1842 (Dinkelaar, Kaatman, op.cit., p. 214, KB 124-1, illustrated, now in a Dutch private collection) was very well received when first exhibited in that year at The Hague. It was later rewarded a silver medal at the exhibition in Brussels. The art critic of the Dutch magazine Kunstkronijk highly praised the picture: 'De schilder heeft hier door het effect het indrukwekkende van het bedehuis verhoogd... De spreuk Lux et Tenebris, boven de lijst, vormt met de schilderij alzoo een schoon geheel, en is niet, zoo als sommigen meenen, een ijdel versiersel. Wat een waarheid is de voorstelling, en hoe geheel is Bosboom voor dit vak berekend ?'.
The present lot would seem to be a preliminary study for the picture and may be that mentioned by Dinkelaar and Kaatman, op.cit., pp. 41 and 44, note 37.
Bosboom also did a finished watercolour of the subject but of smaller format (Dinkelaar, Kaatman, op.cit., p. 217, KBA 27-1). When Bosboom first met his future wife, the writer Geertruida Toussaint, in the summer of 1846, he offered her a choice of drawings from his portfolio. She choose the watercolour version of Lux in Tenebris