Recumbent peasant: pencil on paper, signature at lower left “B C Koek Koek” in another hand.

[Clèves, Prussia?]: Ca. 1845.

Price: $5,000.00


About the item

1 vols. Image 7 x 7 inches, attractively matted and framed to 13-1/2 x 11-1/2 inches overall. Bénézit, V, pp. 284-5.

Item #18193

An attractive drawing of a reposeful man in rural dress, probably a study for one of the artist's paintings of country life. Notes Bénézit, “[He] occupies an interesting place in the Dutch school of the 19th century”: the son of an Amsterdam Acedemician, and married to the daughter of the painter Daiwaille, Koekkoek (1803-1862) founded an academy of painting at Cleves in 1841, exhibited widely, won medals, sold well, and in his relatively brief career established a name for himself as a landscape painter of such eminence that among those comissioning his pictures was the King of Holland.