Peasant women on a forest track by a river

Details

Alexander Keirincx (1600-1652)
Peasant women on a forest track by a river
signed and dated .Keirincx.fe..64(9?).
oil on panel
112.4 x 80 cm
the staffage is the work of a different hand

Provenance

M. Minkowski; His Sale, Lepke Berlin, 12 May 1925, lot 260, ill.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

If the last digit of the date is indeed to be read as a "9", the present picture would appear to be the last dated extant work by the artist.
As pointed out by W. Stechow, Dutch Landscape Painting of the Seventeenth Century, 1966, p.68, Keirincxs late works are characterised by the transparent pattern of branches and leaves against the sky and the muted colour scheme of the foliage.

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