Richard Brakenburg (1650-1702)

Touch: A peasant courting a milkmaid in a farmyard by a haystack

Details

Richard Brakenburg (1650-1702)
Touch: A peasant courting a milkmaid in a farmyard by a haystack
signed upper right R.Brakenburgh (R and B strengthened)
oil on panel
23.8 x 18.7 cm

Provenance

with P. Scheen, The Hague, inv. no573 (according to a label on the reverse)

Sale room notice

Please note that the reference in the catalogue note should read: P.J.J. van Thiel, "Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem - his first ten years as a painter" in Netherlandish Mannerism, Stockholm 1985, pp.73-85.

Lot Essay

The rendering of the subject recalls the picture of a monk and a nun by Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem of 1591 in the Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem. See for the hilarious background of this scene P.J.J. van Thiel, in "Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem - his first ten years as a

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