Property from a British Private Collection
Petrus van Schendel
The card game interrupted
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a British Private Collection
Petrus van Schendel
Terheijden 1806–1870 Brussels
The card game interrupted
signed Iower right: P van Schendel f.
oil on panel
unframed: 44.5 x 57.2 cm.; 17 x 22 in.
framed: 66.5 x 78.5 cm.; 26⅛ x 30⅞ in.
With Leslie Smith Gallery, Wassenar;
Where acquired by a private collector in 1997;
Their sale ('Property from a private collector'), New York, Sotheby’s, 18 April 2008, lot 65;
With M.S. Rau Galleries, New Orleans
Where acquired by the present owners.
This early work by Schendel can be dated to c. 1834 based on the inscription on the bill behind the standing woman, a public sale advertising 'Punlike verkoping'. The uniformed soldier is presumably on active service in the protracted 1830–39 Belgian war of independence against the Dutch.
We are grateful to Dr Jan de Meere for his assistance with the cataloguing of this work.
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