Live Auction 1423419th Century European & Orientalist Art
Petrus van Schendel (Dutch, 1806-1870)
Lot 119

Petrus van Schendel (Dutch, 1806-1870)

Conversing in the kitchen

Closed13 July 2017

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GBP 30,000

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Petrus van Schendel (Dutch, 1806-1870)
Conversing in the kitchen
signed 'P. vanSchendel.fecit.' (lower right)
oil on panel
19 7/8 x 25 ¾ in. (50.5 x 65.3 cm.)

Jacob Neveu.
His sale; de Vries en Roos, Amsterdam, 5 April 1837, lot 174.
Mrs. B. Hoos, The Hague.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 28 February 1973, lot 122.
with Frost & Reed, London (inv. no. 49870S), 1975.

Specialist note

As was Van Schendel’s practice at that time, a drawing of the present composition can be found in the artist’s Liber Veritatis which served as a record of his works between 1835 and 1838 (J. M.M. de Meere, op cit., p. 74, (illustrated).

We would like to thank Jan de Meere for his kind assistance in cataloguing this lot.