The Country Road, Gillis Claesz de Hondecoeter, c. 1620 - c. 1625

Identification

Title(s)

The Country Road

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-1502

Inscriptions / marks

signature, bottom left (D and H ligated): ‘.G. DH.’

Description

Een landweg in de nabijheid van een dorp, links en rechts slootjes en huizen. Op de weg richt een jager met hond zijn geweer op een reiger, rechts maken een man en een vrouw een praatje.

Creation

Artist

painter: Gillis Claesz de Hondecoeter (signed by artist)

Dating

c. 1620 - c. 1625

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on panel

Material

Measurements

support: height 39.6 cm × width 71.8 cm × thickness 1 cm
outer size: depth 5.2 cm (support incl. frame)

Subject

What

public road in village

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

purchase Jun-1889

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

...; sale, Fedor Zschille (†) (Dresden), Cologne (J.M. Heberle), 27 May 1889 _sqq._, no. 50, as Gabriël de Heusch, DM 348, to Dr Abraham Bredius, for the museum{RANH, ARS, IS, inv. 169, no. 83 (31 May 1889); RANH, ARS, IS, inv. 169, no. 102 (16 July 1889, no. 1590); RANH, ARS, inv. 289, Kop, pp. 233-34, no. 534 (23 July 1889).}

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

Artists born between 1570 and 1600, Jonathan Bikker, p. 202
All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam: a completely illustrated catalogue : first supplement: 1976-91, Pieter J.J. van Thiel, p. 57
Masters of 17th-century Dutch landscape painting, Peter C. Sutton
All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Pieter J.J. van Thiel, p. 282

Persistent URL

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