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Johan Hendrik Weissenbruch (Dutch, 1824-1903)
Lot 186THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

Johan Hendrik Weissenbruch (Dutch, 1824-1903)

Gezicht op Haarlem: a panoramic view of Haarlem with the St. Bavokerk in the distance

Closed14 October 2008

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Johan Hendrik Weissenbruch (Dutch, 1824-1903)
Gezicht op Haarlem: a panoramic view of Haarlem with the St. Bavokerk in the distance
signed 'J.H. Weissenbruch' (lower right)
oil on panel
39 x 56 cm.
Painted circa 1849.

Kunsthandel Frans Buffa & Zonen, Amsterdam, inv.no. 1921, as: Gezicht op Haarlem.
Mr H.E. ten Cate, Almelo, thence by descent to the present owners.

Specialist note

Dr Hannema wrote the following in the H.E. ten Cate collection catalogue of 1955 concerning the present lot: 'In the foreground a landscape of dunes with low shrubs and trees. In the centre meadows, resplendent in sunshine. Beyond these, rather more in shadow, the Church of St. Bavo at Haarlem, and over all a grey cloudy sky, becoming lighter towards the left. An important work of the artist's early period, painted about 1849, in which may be detected the influence of the seventeenth-century masters. As we know, Weisssenbruch copied Jacob van Ruisdaels, famous 'View of Haarlem' (at the Mauritshuis in The Hague).' [fig.1].