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3064

Maerten Stoop

Rotterdam circa 1620 – 1647 Utrecht

Guardroom scene: the guards ignore a crying lady. Circa 1640

Oil on oak. 48,5 x 66 cm (19 ⅛ x 26 in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Maerten Stoop. Guardroom scene: the guards ignore a crying lady. Circa 1640.

Estimate:

EUR 15,000

 

- 20,000

USD 16,700

 

- 22,300

Sold for:

12,500 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 237-246

The Rohde-Hinze Collection 1 – Old Masters, Friday, 03.07.2015

Information

Oil on oak. 48,5 x 66 cm (19 ⅛ x 26 in.). Inscribed on flag (possibly written in mirror image): HAИ / On the reverse in pencil: 45 / On the frame: Mompers Lomen. Catalogue raisonné: Accompanied by a certificate by Max J. Friedländer, Berlin, dated 12 August 1929, where described as a "gut erhaltenes Werk von Nicolaus Knupfer“ (in the original) / With correspondence between Kurt Rohde and Werner Teupser, Museum der Bildende Künste zu Leipzig, dating from April 1932 and July 1939, in which Teupser suggests the attribution to Maerten Stoop (in the original) / Accompanied by a certificate by Jo Saxton, Kent, dated May 2015 (in the original). Two glued panels, bound together by wooden clasps on the reverse. Framed

Comparable work: Maerten Stoop: Plundering of a Country House, circa 1642/47, oil on panel, 48 x 60 cm, Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst.

Related literature: Jo Saxton: Nicolaus Knupfer. Monograph and Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings and Drawings, Doornspijk 2005 / B.J.A. Renckens: De zeven werken van Barmhartigheid’ te Kassel. Niet Nicolaes Knupfer, doch Maerten Stoop, in: Oud Netherlands, LXV (1950), p. 74–78, also: New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997, p. 68–77 / Statens Museum for Kunst Copenhagen: Catalogue of Old Foreign Paintings, Copenhagen 1951, cat. no.. 687, p. 304f.

We would like to thank Jo Saxton, Kent, for the attribution on the basis of photographs..

1929 Galerie Internationale, The Hague / from 1929 collection Kurt Rohde, Berlin (as Nicolaus Knupfer) / collection Elisabeth Rohde, Berlin.

Source, collection Rohde-Hinze: Correspondence between Werner Teupser, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, and Kurt Rohde, 1932 and 1939

Thieme-Becker: Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Leipzig, vol. 32, p.116: "Den Haag Internat. Kusthandel (1929): Soldaten u. Dirnen ... Um 1930 in Berl. Besitz dem N. Knüpfer zugeschr. 48,7 x 63,5“