Lot 29
  • 29

Follower of Pieter Codde

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

  • Pieter Codde
  • Interior of an Inn
  • oil on panel
  • 14 5/8 by 19 in.; 37.2 by 48.3 cm.

Provenance

Henry W. Kent (1866-1948), Cleveland;
Held in trust by his estate after his death and bequethed by the Estate of Henry W. Kent to the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1948 [acc. no. 948.462].

Exhibited

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute of Art, Pictures of Everyday Life:  Genre Painting in Europe, 1500 - 1900, 14 October - 12 December 1954, no. 32 (as Pieter Codde);
Akron, OH, Akron Art Institute, Dutch Seventeenth Century Paintings and Drawings, 10 October - 11 November 1956, no. 9 on the checklist (as Pieter Codde);
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, Tobacco and Smoking in Art, 14 October - 4 December 1960, no. XVIII (as Pieter Codde).

Literature

Cleveland Museum of Art, Catalogue of Paintings:  Part Three.  European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries, Cleveland 1982, pp. 226-227,  no. 96, reproduced (as Pieter Codde);
P.C. Sutton, A Guide to Dutch Art in America, Grand Rapids 1986, pp. 68, 334 (titled Guardroom Scene and described as "dubious");
A. Chong, European & American Painting in The Cleveland Museum of Art:  A Summary Catalogue, Cleveland 1993, p. 40, reproduced (as Follower of).

Condition

The surface of the work is in overall good condition. There are some scrapes and a small loss in the extreme left corner of the work. There is a very faint crack approximately 6 inches in length stemming from the right edge moving into the picture. Under UV; heavy varnish and slight inpainting along the top and over the faint crack.
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