Ludolf Bakhuizen Emden 1630 - 1708 Amsterdam

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 EUR

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Description

Ludolf Bakhuizen
A winter landscape with figures skating and playing golf on a frozen lake, a horse-drawn sleigh, a man pushing a sleigh with two other figures in the foreground, and a barge to the right
traces of a signature lower left:L. Bakh
oil on canvas

Provenance

Probably J.G. Cramer, Amsterdam
His sale, Amsterdam, Cok, 13 November 1769, lot 3;
Probably A.J. Essingh
His sale, Cologne, Heberle, 18 September 1865, lot 147;
Anonymous sale, Cologne, Heberle, 9-10 December 1892, lot 2;
Sir Hugh Chance, Birlingram, Worcester (according to the 1997 catalogue below);
With J. Singer, London 1948;
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 16 April 1997, lot 138.

Literature

Probably C. Hofstede de Groot, Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten Holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts, vol. VII, Esslingen/Paris 1918, p. 347, no. 479.

Catalogue Note

Winter landscapes by Ludolf Bakhuizen are very rare. De Beer discusses only one, A Harbour scene in Winter with figures and skaters on ice, signed and dated 1650, formerly in the Hambro collection, London. See: G. de Beer, Ludolf Backhuysen (1630-1708). Sein Leben und Werk, Zwolle 2002, p. 35, reproduced fig. 27, no. 5).

The present painting can be dated later in his career, probably around 1680. This more atmospheric scene, reminiscent of the Naardermeer with the church of Naarden in the background, can be compared, for example, with the signed and 1682 dated Onset of the Storm of 1682 in the Staatliches Museum, Schwerin (idem, p. 107, reproduced fig. 120, no. 56). This would also fit with the form of the signature, used by Bakhuizen at this date (idem, p. 179).