Master Paintings and Sculpture Part II
Master Paintings and Sculpture Part II
Property of a Private American Collector
Pieter Hermansz. Verelst
Tavern interior with peasant company drinking at a table and a man smoking a pipe
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January 27, 09:38 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Private American Collector
Pieter Hermansz. Verelst
Dordrecht 1618 - circa 1678 Hulst
Tavern interior with peasant company drinking at a table and a man smoking a pipe
indistinctly signed and dated lower right on barrel
oil on canvas mounted on panel
panel: 18⅜ by 15½ in.; 46.7 by 39.4 cm.
framed: 24⅞ by 22 in.; 63.2 by 55.9 cm.
The present painting is a characteristic work of Pieter Hermansz. Verelst, an artist best known for his peasant interiors and genre scenes of seventeenth-century Dutch life. The presence of a faint signature and date on the barrel at right has sometimes been interpreted as reading "1675," which would notably place this painting as the latest work of Verelst's oeuvre. Previously, it was believed that Verelst retired from artistic practice by 1671, at which time the artist moved to Hulst and became a brewer - a fitting career given his affinity for depicting alehouse interiors.
We are grateful to Fred G. Meijer for endorsing the attribution to Verelst, documented in a letter retained by the present collectors.