Playing Draughts by Candlelight
Original Oil Painting on Panel
by Johannes Rosierse (1818-1901)
- Similar listed to $96,000 USD at auction.
- Signed 'J. Rosierse Fecit' lower left.
- Painting - 40cm (15 3/4") x 30cm (12 1/2")
- Frame - 51cm (20") x 42cm (16 1/2")
Lot Notes
An exceptional 19th century Dutch genre painting depicting a family group playing draughts in a candlelit interior by important Dutch genre painter and specialist painter of candlelit scenes Johannes Rosierse. The painting is a wonderful example of the artist's work - sensitively and expertly painted with the candlelight and it's effects masterfully depicted. The painting is signed lower left.
Rosierse's work is highly collectible realising thousands of pounds at auction. Please see the snapshots of auction results in the photograph section of this listing.
Condition
The painting is in very fine condition. The oak support not warped, split or repaired. Clean, most attractive and ready to hang. Presented in a good quality wood and gilt composite frame.
Artist Information
Johannes Rosierse was born in, coincidentally close to the home of Godfried Schalcken (1643-1706), the prime exponent of candlelit paintings and nocturnal scenes of the seventeenth century. Rosierse as a youth was apprenticed to a shoemaker before becoming a pupil of the artist, Michael Versteeg (1746-1843). He was a painter of figures, interiors and market scenes, but it is as a painter of these subjects by lamplight or candlelight that he is renowned. He is likely to have seen and studied the work of Schalcken in Dordrecht and so to have adopted this genre. Rosierse worked and exhibited in Amsterdam, Groningen and The Hague, and briefly in Leeuwarden in 1855. His works can be found in museums in: Dordrecht; Leeuwarden; Montpelier and Rotterdam.
General Information
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