Offered by White Rose Fine Art
Dirck Verhaert (Haarlem c.1610 – c.1680 Leiden)
A Panoramic Landscape with Travellers
Oil on panel, 46 x 63 cm
Signed with monogram ‘DVH’ (lower right)
Provenance
- Anonymous sale, Van Ham, Cologne, 14 October 1964, lot 1408, repr.
- Private collection, The Netherlands
Dirck Verhaert joined the painters’ guild of St Luke in The Hague in 1631, but settled in Haarlem in 1637, where he joined the local guild in 1638, after having experienced problems paying his admission fee. He was married to Wilhelmina van Santen before 1641 – she was the sister of the battle piece painter Gerrit van Santen.
Verhaert moved to Leiden around 1664, whe he joined the guild in the same year, donating a painting instead of paying the admission fee.
Verhaert was primarily active in Haarlem and belonged to the circle of Italianate landscape painters. His repertoire of motifs consisted of ruins, riverbanks, distant mountains and bucolic figures. He also painted town views. Paintings by Verhaert can be found in the collections of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Pieterskerk in Leiden and the Staatliches Museum in Schwerin.
The present painting is an excellent example of Verhaert’s oeuvre, in beautiful state of preservation. It is likely to have been painted around 1650 and shows in the influence of panoramic landscape views by Herman Saftleven (1609 – 1685).
