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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 19, 2017 | Van Ham | Cologne | Alte Kunst | 566 | $****** - ****** | Karneval (Carnival) | |||
May 13, 2016 | Van Ham | Cologne | Alte Kunst | 649 | $****** - ****** | 'Carnival' |
paintings
60 x 47 cm (23.62 x 18.5 in)
oil on wood
Signed lower left: P. van Schendel fecit; Verso: Remains of a former seal on panel
1st half of the 20th century art dealer's M. Wolff, Amsterdam
- Collection Herrmann Hugo Zwillenberg (1885-1966)
- Direct family succession Zwillenberg
Mentioned and illustrated in: Jan M.M. de Meere; Petrus van Schendel, Luden 2012, p. 73, no. 153. Here also a preliminary sketch of the painting. Petrus van Schendel was an important 19th century Dutch-Belgian painter specialised in evening and night scenes by candle, lamp, and moon light. He became most famous with his impressive market scenes, but also achieved great technical skills in his moonlit riverlandscapes and interior scenes.The present lot depicts an interior with a masquerade during carnival, a rare theme within the artist's oeuvre. Van Schendel painted the light and dark effects, the faces of the figures and the details of their clothing with much accuracy. The central figure is that of a seated woman whose is illuminated by candlelight. Her eyes are crossing with the beholder's view and give the compostion its intimacy.Based on other compositions and the figurations and an additional ink drawing in Van Schendel's liber veritatis, this painting can be dated to circa 1836. Since the nineteenth century his 'liber veritatis' remained in the possession of his descendants. It gives a very extensive insight in Petrus van Schendel's works from the period 1822-1838, sometimes illustrated with drawings after paintings and specific facts about lost works. The current interior scene is fresh-to-the-market. Until recently the whereabouts of this painting were unknown, since its last trace in the formerly collection of 'Kunsthandel M. Wolff, Amsterdam'. Christian Lucht MA., Deventer
