Jacob Ochtervelt (1634-1682)

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Jacob Ochtervelt (1634-1682)

A Man holding a giant Roemer and a woman emptying a bowl on a balcony

signed centre below Ochtervelt, oil on canvas
32.7 x 27.4 cm

Provenance

G. van der Pot, Rotterdam; Sale, Van Nymegen etc. Rotterdam, 6 June 1808, lot 94
Viscount Harcourt, London
Hawk; Sale, American Art Association New York, 4 February 1931, lot 19
with J. Weitzner, New York, 1933
with L. Koetser, London, 1959 (autumn exhibition 2-30 November 1959, no. 7)
with D. Katz, Dieren, 1962 (exhibition Oude Hollandse en Vlaamse Meesters, 22 November 1962-15 January 1963, no. 41)
Anon. Sale, Galliéra Paris, 10 June 1964, lot 20
with I. Bier, Haarlem, 1967
Duyvendijk, Scheveningen, 1968
with P. de Boer, Amsterdam, 1970 (exhibition catalogue Fine Old Master Paintings, 16 March-1 June 1970, no. 45)
with K. Meissner, Zurich, 1979

Literature

S. Donahue Kuretsky, The Paintings of Jacob Ochterveldt, 1979, pp. 90/91, no. 89, fig. 73, as to be dated to circa 1675

Engraved

Jan Verkolje, 1685
P. Tanjé (Hollstein XIV, no. 3)

Lot Essay

Dating from the Amsterdam period of the artist; the artist moved to that city in 1674. As pointed out by Kuretzky, op.cit., p. 26, Ochtervelt's style then underwent a change towards softer colours and more classical type of figures under the influence of Gerard de Lairesse

The subject of a woman pouring from a window appears also in a print by H. Barij after Frans van Mieris (O. Naumann, Frans van Mieris the Elder, II, 1981, pp. 9/10, pl. 3). From the accompanying text it is understood that the scene is not just the pouring of a liquid but should be seen as a metaphor for loosing one's honour

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