Description
Oil, duplicated canvas; 60 x 82.5 cm Signed: lower left, on base of sphinx sculpture I. MOUCHERON On the back two old (19th century) paper stickers: 1) No: 77 | 2 J Lach (?) | Museron 2)............. | I. Moucher.... On the loom a wax seal, red, with the eagle of the Kingdom of Prussia, possibly of the Prussian Customs Chamber. (cf. O. Neubecker, W. Rentzmann, Wappenbilder Lexikon, München 1974, p. 233).
State of preservation: after 19th-century conservation.
Asking price 57000
Estimate 70000 - 100000
Isaac de MOUCHERON
1667 Amsterdam - 1744 Amsterdam He came from a family with great artistic traditions. His grandfather, Balthasar, was a French painter from Normandy who moved north to Middelburg and Emden. Here he married Cornelia van Broeckhoven, also a painter. Their son, Frederick (1633 - 1686) traveled to France, visited Antwerp and presumably Italy, and settled in Amsterdam upon his return. He was a much sought-after painter of fashionable italianizing landscapes in the style of Jan Botha. Isaac was a pupil of his father, but he also succumbed to the influence of the painting art of Jan Glauber (1646 - 1726/28) and Albert Meyeringh (1645-1714). From 1694 to 1697 Isaac was in Italy, where he joined the Dutch brotherhood of painters called "de Bentvueghels" with the pseudonym Ordonanza (due to his great proficiency in composition). In Rome he succumbed to the influence of the art of Gaspard Dughet (1615 - 1675), and was probably also familiar with the engravings of Pietro Testa (1611-1650). After returning home in 1697, he settled in his native Amsterdam. Isaac de Moucheron was a highly regarded painter of plafonds and decorative sets of landscapes that adorned the walls of the homes of Amsterdam's notables. He also painted vedutas, park landscapes, castles and palaces, Roman ruins enlivened by figures which were often painted in his landscapes by other artists, such as Gerard de Lairesse (1641-1711), Jacob de Witt (1695-1754), Nicolaes Verkolje (1673-1746). Isaac's works are in museums in Amsterdam, Augsburg, Cambridge, Dresden, Dublin, Florence, Kassel, Copenhagen, Leiden, New York, Riga, Schwerin, Warsaw.
