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Lot 1572 Dα

Cornelis Boumeester - Sailing Ships off the Coast

Auction 1209 - overview Cologne
19.11.2022, 11:00 - Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture 14th-19th Centuries
Estimate: 14.000 € - 16.000 €
Result: 26.460 € (incl. premium)
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Cornelis Boumeester

Sailing Ships off the Coast

Oil on panel. 37.5 x 49.5 cm.
Monogrammed lower right: CBM (on the barrel).

This painting, executed in grisaille, shows several sailing ships on calm seas with a strip of coast with a mill in the distance. In the execution, great importance is attached to the reproduction of even the smallest details, such as the ropes of the rigging, which have been drawn in with pen.
The painting is a fine and typical work by Cornelis Boumeester, who was active in Rotterdam at the same time as the other representatives of the "penschilderij" circle Adriaen and Roelof van Salm. In addition to the so-called "parade pieces", i.e. detailed depictions of specific and nameable ships, his main motifs include Dutch sailing ships off the local coast, as in the present work.

Provenance

The E. Wolf collection, New York. - Galerie J. Kraus, Paris. - Acquired there in 1977 and subsequently in a German private collection.

Exhibitions

Brandeis University 1966: 17th Century Paintings from the Low Countries (Nr. 24).