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拍品專文
The present lot is a typical example of the impressive horizontal panoramic landscapes that the artist painted in the 1840's. In the composition the artist combined several favourite themes from this period: a tempestuous sky after the passing of a storm, a high viewpoint in the foreground and a distant fire. Via the group of figures in the foreground, who have stopped along the road to observe the fire, the artist focusses our attention to the fire in the distance towards the left. The smaller figures running towards the mill on the right further emphasise the direction the artist wants the eye to take. Koekkoek already employed the theme of a distant fire as focus point in a painting from 1846 (Gorissen, op.cit., no. 46/67-1, oil on panel, 67 x 85 cm.; collection Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp).
The castle visible in the centre background has been kindly identified by Dr Guido de Werd as Schloss Moyland in Nordrhein-Westfalen. The artist has as such included a recognizable topographical feature in this otherwise more imaginary Lower Rhine landscape. Schloss Moyland already featured more prominently in a forest landscape by the artist from 1840 (Gorissen, op.cit., no. 40/78, oil on canvas, 78 x 73 cm., private collection).
In the year of execution of the present lot Schloss Moyland was still a baroque castle, before its restauration five years later in 1854, when the 'Dombaumeister' from Cologne, Ernst Friedrich Zwirner was commissioned by N.J. Steengracht, whose family had owned the castle since 1766, to renovate the castle in the Neo-Gothic style. Nowadays the castle is a museum, housing the Van der Grinten collection and the Joseph Beuys Archive of Nordrhein-Westfalen.
The authenticity has been kindly confirmed by Drs Guido de Werd after firsthand examination.
The castle visible in the centre background has been kindly identified by Dr Guido de Werd as Schloss Moyland in Nordrhein-Westfalen. The artist has as such included a recognizable topographical feature in this otherwise more imaginary Lower Rhine landscape. Schloss Moyland already featured more prominently in a forest landscape by the artist from 1840 (Gorissen, op.cit., no. 40/78, oil on canvas, 78 x 73 cm., private collection).
In the year of execution of the present lot Schloss Moyland was still a baroque castle, before its restauration five years later in 1854, when the 'Dombaumeister' from Cologne, Ernst Friedrich Zwirner was commissioned by N.J. Steengracht, whose family had owned the castle since 1766, to renovate the castle in the Neo-Gothic style. Nowadays the castle is a museum, housing the Van der Grinten collection and the Joseph Beuys Archive of Nordrhein-Westfalen.
The authenticity has been kindly confirmed by Drs Guido de Werd after firsthand examination.