Lot 6019 - ibid146 Old Master Paintings - online only
Provenance:
- Sale Dobiaschofsky, Bern, 23/24 October and 20/21 November 1970, Lot 458.
- Private collection, Switzerland.
Literature:
Bernadette van Haute: David III Ryckaert : a Seventeenth-Century Flemish painter of peasant scenes, Turnhout 1999, cat. no. A 166, (ill. p. 383).
Our thanks to Dr Fred G. Meijer who has confirmed the authenticity of this work on the basis of a photograph.
Oil on canvas, lined. Paint surface shows a slight degree of wear in places, with a fine network of craquelure, superficial soiling and older retouching in places. Slight colour abrasions along the edges.
Under UV: Retouching along the edges. Some retouching on the figure, in the background and in the foreground. Few small retouching on the still life elements. Varnish appears irregular in fluorescent green.
Frame: 85.5 × 105 cm.
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