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Lot 1538 Dα

Meindert Hobbema - Watermill and Village in a Wooded Landscape

Auction 1057 - overview Cologne
14.11.2015, 11:00 - Old Master and 19th Century Paintings and Drawings
Estimate: 60.000 € - 80.000 €
Result: 37.200 € (incl. premium)

Meindert Hobbema

Watermill and Village in a Wooded Landscape

Oil on canvas (relined). 89 x 116 cm.
Signed and dated centre left: MHobbema 1684.

The Amsterdam landscape painter Meindert Hobbema was a pupil of Jacob van Ruisdael. Based on the works of his teacher, he quickly established his own unique style and set of motifs, mainly painting wooded landscapes, often opening onto bright, sunny valleys speckled with little houses, windmills, watermills and calm ponds. The works evoke an atmosphere of peace and tranquillity, which is accentuated by the serene way in which the figures who populate them go about their daily activities. Hobbema's oeuvre is not especially large and he is known to have lived in relatively modest circumstances. He took up a position as municipal wine gauger in 1668 and apparently rarely painted after this.

Certificate

Heinrich Zimmermann, Berlin, 7.2.1951.

Literature

Georges Broulhiet: Meindert Hobbema, Paris 1938, p. 386, no. 67, illus. p. 135.