Lot 134: PHILIPS KONINCK

THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR AMSTERDAM 1619 - 1688 A HUNTER SEATED IN A TAVERN INTERIOR signed and dated on the stool, lower centre: P Koninck / 1649 oil on oak panel 36.4 by 29 cm..; 14 1/4 by 11 3/8 in.

Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, on loan, 1986 - 2000.

Possibly H. Gerson, Philips Koninck, Berlin 1936, p. 122, cat. no. 187 (under lost paintings); E. Plietzch, Holländische und Flämische Maler des XVII. Jahrunderts, Leipzig 1960, p. 109, reproduced plate 183; W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt Schüler, Landau 1983, vol. III, p. 1539, cat. no. 1013, reproduced; C. Hesse and M. Schlangenhaufer, Wallraf-Richartz Museum: Vollständiges Verzeichnis der Gemäldesammlung, Cologne 1986, p. 48.

Possibly anonymous sale, Amsterdam, 24 September 1777, lot 63; E.G. Bürhle, Zurich, by 1960; Private collection, Germany, from before 1986 until after 2001.

This is one of Koninck’s earliest genre efforts, dating to the period when he was producing his most celebrated landscapes. It was singled out by both Plietzsch and Sumowski (see literature) as the finest achievement among his figure paintings. Sumowski noted that the delicately balanced composition gives the painting a still life-like quality, while the earthy tones “combine exquisitely” with the deep green of the hunter’s jacket and the highlights of pink and red.