Koekkoek, B.C. | A wooded landscape with figures and cows at sunset

Barend Cornelis Koekkoek

Dutch, Middelburg 1803 – 1862 Cleves (Germany)

A wooded landscape with figures and cows at sunset

Oil on panel  39.1 x 53.8 cm

Signed and dated on the rock lower left ‘BC Koekkoek 1849’

With a certificate of authenticity written by the artist with sealing wax stamp on the back of the panel.

The work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of B.C. Koekkoeks paintings being prepared by Guido the Werd

Provenance
Collection Mr. J.A. Völcker
Gallery H. Koekkoek Jr., London 1888
Sale Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, 17 April 1888, lot 13
Sale C.F. Roos, Amsterdam, 20 May 1890, lot 66
Sale C.E. Hirschberg, The Hague, 24 May 1966, lot 133

Literature |
Friedrich Gorissen, Werkverzeichnis B.C. Koekkoek, Düsseldorf 1962, no. O/40-3 as ‘La forêt’