Estimate: $50,000 - $80,000
Auction: April 17, 2024 at 11:00 AM ET
Signed and dated ‘Ch. Leickert f 72’ bottom right, oil on canvas
24 x 38 ¼ in. (61 x 97.2cm)
Étude Eric Courturier & Étude de Provence, Paris, Hotel Drouot, sale of March 25, 2002, lot 19.
Richard Green, London, United Kingdom.
Acquired directly from the above.
Private Collection, Florida.
We wish to thank the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, also known as R.K.D., for their kind assistance in authenticating, and cataloguing the present Lot
Leickert was well-established by the time the present work was painted and at the height of his powers as a premier landscapist who specialized in winter scenes and excelled in capturing the effects of light. A leading member of the Dutch Romantic School, Leickert spent most of his career in Holland, and was likely in Amsterdam when the present work was painted. He enjoyed great success during his lifetime, with patrons enjoying his highly naturalistic scenes of skaters on frozen rivers, a subject he mastered and which reveals the strong influence of his teacher of an earlier generation, Andreas Schelfhout.