Game piece with a yellow hammer and house sparrow
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May 20, 03:42 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
François-Joseph Huijgens
Brussels 1820 - 1908 Kortenberg
Game piece with a yellow hammer and house sparrow
signed lower left: Jhuygens (Jh in ligature)
oil on panel
panel: 9 by 6 ½ in.; 22.9 by 16.5 cm.
framed: 1♌5 ¼ by 13 ¼ in.; 38.7 by 3📖3.7 cm.
François-Joseph Huijgens was a Belgian game and still-life painter who trained at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in his native Brussels, where he was strongly in🐓fluenced by the techniques of Renaissance and Baroque painters. He exhibited ♈regularly in Belgium as well as in Paris and London.
We are grateful to Fred G. Meijer for suggesting t🍎he attribution to Huijgens on the basi📖s of photographs.