Pieter Cornelisz. Verbeeck (Haarlem 1598/1602-1652/4)

A grey horse tied to a hitching post before an inn

Details

Pieter Cornelisz. Verbeeck (Haarlem 1598/1602-1652/4)
A grey horse tied to a hitching post before an inn
signed 'p. verbeecq.' (lower right, on the wall)
oil on panel
15 ¼ x 12 ¼ in. (38.5 x 31 cm.)

Provenance

with Galerie Müllenmeister, Solingen, 1974.
F.C. Butôt, Sankt Gilgen, Austria; Sotheby’s, Amsterdam, 16 November 1993, lot 2.
with Bob Haboldt, New York, where acquired by the present owner.

Literature

Lennart Publicity Calendar, 1978, illustrated.
K.J. Müllenmeister, Meer und Land im Licht des 17. Jahrhunderts, III, Bremen, 1981, p. 86, no. 483, illustrated.
L.J. Bol, G.S. Keyes and F.C. Butôt, Netherlandish Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of F.C. Butôt by little-known and rare masters of the seventeenth century, London, 1981, p. 62, no. 14, illustrated.
P. Sutton, 'The Noblest of Livestock', J. Paul Getty Museum Journal, XV, 1987, pp. 102-103, fig. 12.

Exhibited

Munich, Sotheby's, A Selection of Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of F.C. Butôt, June 1989.

Lot Essay

Born in Haarlem, Verbeeck became a member of the Alkmaar painters guild in 1635 and spent several years in Utrecht before returning to his native city. This meticulously rendered and well-preserved painting reflects the influence of artists like the Utrecht-born Dirk Stoop and the Haarlemer Pieter van Laer, each of whom specialized in the depiction of idealized horses in landscape settings and whose works Verbeeck no doubt encountered in the early years of his career. Peter Sutton has suggested that the painting dates to the 1640s, around the time Verbeeck settled permanently in Haarlem (loc. cit.).

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