Lot Essay
The artist was active in Leyden. His artistic output is limited as he died at the age of 29. His style is best compared with that of Isaack Koedijck, for apparent is the same emphasis on light shining through the window-panes and the rendering of detail. Both artists were much influenced by Gerard Dou.
Like Dou, Van Gaesbeeck repeated architectural motifs throughout his work. The chimney piece in the present lot, for instance, also occurs in a picture dated 1645, offered at the Andersen Gallery, New York, 14 May 1935, lot 1199 (photograph in the R.K.D., The Hague). The same girl appears in a picture in the Gemäldegalerie at Berlin-Dahlem (see E.J. Sluijter, Leidse Fijnschilders, exhibition catalogue Leyden, 1988, p. 61, fig. 34)
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Like Dou, Van Gaesbeeck repeated architectural motifs throughout his work. The chimney piece in the present lot, for instance, also occurs in a picture dated 1645, offered at the Andersen Gallery, New York, 14 May 1935, lot 1199 (photograph in the R.K.D., The Hague). The same girl appears in a picture in the Gemäldegalerie at Berlin-Dahlem (see E.J. Sluijter, Leidse Fijnschilders, exhibition catalogue Leyden, 1988, p. 61, fig. 34)
See colour illustration