Hendrik Voogd Lot n° 44

Hendrik Voogd, Italian landscape after the storm. Oil on canvas. 1808. 54,2 x 66,8 cm. Signed and dated lower left "H. Voogd fecit/1808". Probably in O. frame. After a violent storm, of which the departing storm clouds on the right still announce, the sky tears open and sunbeams flood the landscape with glistening light. Even if the composition of the picture seems staged, almost stage-set-like, it is based on a precise observation of nature. The fracture of the poplar tree, which the storm has caused to burst, is similarly effectively illuminated as the tree blow in the middle ground. The Italian landscapes of Hendrik Voogd differed from those of his 17th-century predecessors in their classicist coolness. After apprenticing with the Amsterdam wallpaper painter Jurriaan Andriessen, Voogd, aided by a scholarship he received in 1788, moved to Rome, where he remained until his death. In 1816 he was made an honorary member of the Accademia di San Luca, and four years later was admitted to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam. Voogd moved in the circle of the German "Romfahrer", the early ideal landscapes of Johann Christian Reinhart proved to be particularly stimulating. The early works up to about 1805 of the "Dutch Claude Lorrain" - as the biographer Van der Willigen called him - were consequently influenced by classicism, while the later landscapes show a much more naturalistic view. Voogd adopted the landscape captured here in a painting for Count Stroganoff, who lived in Rome. It is likely that our painting was also part of a collection based in Rome, as suggested by the original carved and gilded frame. Taxation: differential taxation (VAT: Margin Scheme)