Hendrikus van de Sande Bakhuyzen
A winter landscape with hunters
1829

About the Item

Hendrikus van de Sande Bakhuyzen (The Hague 1795-1860) A winter landscape with hunters on a path along a stream Signed and dated 'H vd S. Bakhuyzen ft' / 1829' (lower left) Painted in 1829. Oil on canvas 76 x 96 cm. Provenance Anonymous sale; Sotheby Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 23 February 1971, lot 520. with W.H. Patterson, London. with Richard Green, London, by 1979. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 18 June 1980, lot 19. He is known for his Romantic pastoral scenes (especially paintings of livestock) with detailed landscapes, notably inspired by Golden Age artist Paulus Potter and continuing the Realist tradition of that era. He emphasized drawing as essential to truthful painting, quoting the motto le dessin est the probite de l'art (drawing is the integrity of art) after French painter Ingres. He required his students to learn to sketch natural scenes in great detail before permitting them to hold a brush. This emphasis on work en plein air presaged the landscape work of Hague School artists. He has been described as "an honest landscape painter" whose scenes are "entirely free from mannerism and artificiality". His works often emphasized animals on the landscape, driven in part by their commercial success. His son Julius later relayed the story of one of Hendrik's paintings of a landscape near Oosterbeek that featured what was to his father an ordinary brown horse but which so caught the fancy of his customer's neighbors in Philadelphia that Hendrik received at least ten orders for similar pictures with that particular horse as if the horse itself were somehow special. Most of van de Sande Bakhuyzen's work was summer landscapes, but he also painted a small number of winter scenes, often of quintessentially Dutch scenes including windmills, ice skaters, and cottages built in traditional Dutch architectural style.

Creator:
Hendrikus van de Sande Bakhuyzen (1795 - 1860, Dutch)
Creation Year:
1829
Dimensions:
Height: 29.93 in (76 cm)Width: 37.8 in (96 cm)
Medium:
Canvas,Oil
Movement & Style:
Dutch School
Period:
1820-1829
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Tallinn, EE
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU2243212361822
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