A river landscape with figures merrymaking in boats and outside an inn

细节

Thomas Heeremans (active Haarlem 1660-1697)
A river landscape with figures merrymaking in boats and outside an inn
with indistinct signature ? (lower left)
oil on canvas
23¾ x 33 in. (60.3 x 83.8 cm.)

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拍品专文

For a similar signed work, dated 1690, see Sotheby's sale, London, Thursday, 14 December 2000, lot 123 (sold £35,000).

The artist was a late representative of the Haarlem School of landscape painters. His oeuvre consisting mainly of river landscapes that employed the device of a receeding diagonal riverbank, a motif invented by Jan van Goyen and Salomon van Ruysdael. Here that motif is used and balanced by the left bank and crowded riverfront, full of boats teeming with action. He is perhaps best known for his winter scenes which were strongly influenced by the work of the slightly earlier Haarlem landscape painter, Claes Molenaer.

See front cover illustration for detail