Property of a Prom༺inent Princeton New Jersey Col💖lector
Circle of Joachim Govertsz. Camphuysen
Country landscape with a hennetaster be🌞fore a cottage with dovecote
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May 20, 03:42 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Pr🐷omin꧅ent Princeton New Jersey Collector
Circle of Joachim Govertsz. Camphuysen
Country landscape with a hennetaster before a cottage with dovecote
bears signature lower left on the brick: P. de Bloot
oil on panel
panel: 23 ½ by 31 in.; 59.7 by 78.7 cm.
framed: 30 by 38 in.; 76.2 by 96.5 cm.
Anonymous sale, Cologne, Kunsthaus am Museum, 23 October 1968, lot 1333 (as Pieter de Bloot);
There acquired by the present collector.
There acquired by the present collector.
According to sixteenth- and seventeenth- century Dutch and Flemish literature and imagery, a hennetaster (literally, hen-groper) is a man occupied with the minor tasks of housekeeping, often keeping a very disheveled house, and emasculated by his wife. The man carrying eggs back to his cottage overgrown with weeds while his wife looks on is a satirical symbol of an imbalanced marriage and household.
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