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David III Ryckaert

1612 – Antwerp – 1661

Old Man Sleeping. Circa 1640/42

Oil on panel. 38 x 35 cm (15 x 13 ¾ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: David III Ryckaert. Old Man Sleeping. Circa 1640/42.

Estimate:

EUR 6,000

 

- 8,000

USD 6,700

 

- 8,930

Sold for:

68,750 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 237-246

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

Information

Oil on panel. 38 x 35 cm (15 x 13 ¾ in.). On the reverse a Czech customs stamp with Moravian coat of arms: 6 CELNI ÚŘAD BRNO / Scratched into the frame: R 371. Catalogue raisonné: Accompanied by a certificate by Max J. Friedländer, Berlin, dated 8 February 1931, where described as a "besonders gutes u. Gut erhaltenes Werk von dem jüngeren David Ryckaert“ (in the original). On the reverse, with wooden support lattice. Framed

Related literature: Bernadette van Haute: David III Ryckaert. A Seventeenth-Century Flemish Painter of Peasant Scenes, Pictura Nova vol. VI, Brepols 1999 / Bernadette van Haute: Ryckaert at work. A Flemish painter’s view of labour, in: De zeventiende eeuw, vol. 23 (2007) no. 2, p.195–215.

Comparable works by David Ryckaert: Duet, circa 1640/42, 35 x 28 cm, whereabouts unknown / A Shoemaker, circa 1642, 59 x 83,5 cm, whereabouts unknown / Wie die Alten singen, so pfeifen die Jungen, 1642, signed and dated lower left, 64,5 x 101 cm, Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, inv. no. 1094 / Sleeping Boy, circa 1649, 53 x 39 cm, The Hague, Dienst voor ‘s-Rijks Verspreide Kunstvoorwerpen, inv. no. NK.1943.

Czechoslovakian private collection / 1929 art dealership L. Groeneveld, The Hague-Scheveningen / 1929 collection Kurt Rohde, Berlin / 1938–43 deposited with Elisabeth Berbig, Dresden / collection Elisabeth Rohde, Berlin.

Source, collection Rohde-Hinze: inventory book no. 371 (1929), 800 RM / inventory list of pictures (1950), no. 103, previous owner "Groe“, 800 RM

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