BAREND GAEL
(Haarlem, 1630 - Amsterdam, 1688)
Merry... Lot 155
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BAREND GAEL
(Haarlem, 1630 - Amsterdam, 1688)
Merry company in front of a village inn
Signed B Gael at lower right
Oil on panel, 39.5X43 cm
Provenance:
London, Christie's, June 29, 1979, lot 92
London, Sotheby's, April 8, 1981, lot 68
Maastricht, Robert Noortman Gallery
Vienna, Dorotheum, March 6, 1996, lot 86
Vienna, private collection
Vienna, Dorotheum, December 16, 2021, lot 171
Italy, private collection
Bibliography:
RKD: https://rkd.nl/imageslite/434958
The panel is a fine evidence of Barend Gael's production, probably made around 1660, when the painter's style seems to be breaking free from that of the master Philips Wouwerman, as was documented by A. Houbraken (De Groote Schouburgh der Nederlantse Konstschilders en Schilderessen etc., vol. III, 1753, p. 321). His elegant compositions, with their precise depictions of horses and the landscape, often reach a quality level similar to that of the master, as is clearly perceptible in the painting under review.
Reference bibliography:
I. van Thiel Stroman, Barend Cornelisz Gael, in Painting in Haarlem 1500-1850. The collection of the Frans Hals Museum, Gent-Haarlem 2006, pp. 154-155
W. G. M. Cerutti, Het huys daer Daphne uythangt. Geschiedenis van Gedempte Oude Gracht 41, Haarlem 1600-2010, Haarlem 2010, p. 12
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