Pieter Holsteijn the Younger(Haarlem 1614 – 1673 Amsterdam) Viennese emperor moth Pen and ink and watercolour with body colour, 162 x 211 mmPaper, three edges trimmed smoothly, right edge ragged, watermark (lower edge, cropped): coat of arms (shield per bend sinister; watermark D)Inscribed PH (monogrammed, on the right below the moth)The verso bears two sketches…
Peder Balke(Hedemarken, Norway 1804 – 1887 Oslo) Mount Stetind, Swathed in Fog, early 1860s Oil on canvas, 37.3 x 29.5 cmSigned lower right Balke Provenance:Ingar H. Nielsen, Oslo (1885-1963) [1]Rolf Saxholm (until the 1990s)Øystein Hjort, Copenhagen (1938-2014), nephew of Saxholm [2]Thence by descent Exhibited:Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen (on permanent loan from January 2015 until…
Peder Balke (Hedemarken, Norway 1804 – 1887 Christiania) Gausta Peak, 1877 Oil on panel, 17 x 13.1 cmSigned and dated lower left Balke 1877A label on the verso inscribed Fru Thekla Balke Lange / Eilert Sundts gt 57 KristianiaBearing a printed label Kunstnerforbundet / Kjeld Stubs Gt. 3, Oslo 1 / Kat. Nr. 69 jan….
Peder Balke(1804 Hedemarken, Norway – Christiania 1887) Reindeers ‘under the Glorious Midnight Sun’, c. 1850 Oil on paper, 19.2 x 25.4 Provenance:Probably one of the sketches taken by Balke to Berlin in 1851 (in 1852, towards the end of Balke’s visit, King Friedrich Wilhelm IV acquired two of his paintings)[1]Private collection, Germany We are…