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Abraham van Strij
A couple reading by candlelight
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March 24, 02:32 PM GMT
Estimate
700 - 900 GBP
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Abraham van Strij
Dordrecht 1753 - 1826
A couple reading by candlelight
Point of the brush and brown wash over black chalk, within pen and brown ink framing lines;
signed in pen and brown ink, upper right: A van Strij and bears attribution in black chalk, verso: Avan stry
unframed: 160 by 141 mm
framed: 254 by 228 mm
sale, Amsterdam, Christie's, 3 September 2002, lot 92
Abraham van Strij was greatly inspired by the masters of the 17th century. In the case of his landscapes, the primary influence came from Aelbert Cuyp (1620-1691), but Van Strij's interior scenes clearly look to those of Pieter de Hooch (1629-after 1679), in terms of their subjects and use of light.
Couples shown, as here, in intimate, candle-lit interiors feature in a number of Abraham van Strij's drawings. One, dated 1816, and showing a young boy and girl dining by candlelight, is in a private collection1, while the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, has a beautiful depiction of a young girl and boy looking at drawings by candlelight.2
2. Inv. no. RP-T-1921-144; for both drawings, see In Helder Licht. Abraham en Jacob van Strij, exh. cat., Dordrecht, Dordrechts Museum, and Enschede, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, 2000, pp. 155-6, figs. 225, 226, and p. 238, cat. nos. 115, 116