Master Paintings Part II
Master Paintings Part II
Jan Baptist Weenix
Architectural interior with foreign shippers, ruins and a shipyard beyond
Lot Closed
January 30, 05:15 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Jan Baptist Weenix
Amsterdam 1621 - 1659 De Haar (Vleuten-De Meern)
Architectural interior with foreign shippers, ruins and a shipyard beyond
indistinctly signed, center right: Gio. B/Weenix
oil on canvas
canvas: 31 1/2 by 26 in.; 80 by 66 cm.
framed: 37 by 31 3/4 in.; 94 by 80.6 cm.
Sale of H.C. du Bois, The Hague, and others, Amsterdam, Frederik Muller, 27 November 1906, lot 195 (where described as signed and dated Gio. Batta Weenix 1649) [for fl 140];
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 7 December 1994, lot 193;
There acquired by Johnny van Haeften, London;
From whom acquired.
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 7 December 1994, lot 193;
There acquired by Johnny van Haeften, London;
From whom acquired.
A.A. Van Wagenberg-Ter Hoeven, Jan Baptist Weenix: The paintings. A Story of Versatility, Success, and Bankruptcy in Seventeenth-Century Holland, Zwolle 2018, p. 148, cat. no. 51, reproduced in color.
Van Wagenberg-Ter Hoeven describes this canvas in her catalogue raisonné as having a "rare semi-interior setting" in which the architectural elements, especially the oculus, are inspired by Weenix's time in Rome. In the 1906 sale, the present lot was said to be dated 1649, and though the date can no longer be made out, the painting does likely date to this period. Despite Weenix's short career, he was a prolific painter of Italian landscapes and genre scenes, and was instrumental in introducing the Italian harbor scene into Dutch painting.