Cornelis Lieste, Evening Landscape with a Peasant Family

Cornelis Lieste

1817 Haarlem - 1861 Haarlem

Evening Landscape with a Peasant Family

Oil on panel. 70 x 100 cm.

Signed and dated lower right: C. Lieste fecit 1850. Provenance

Auktion De Waard, The Hague, 13.7.1968, lot 112. - Kunsthandel Heinrich Teck, Kleve. - In a Lower Rhenish private collection since 1968. Literature

Exhib. cat.: Cornelis Lieste 1817-1861. Maler des Lichts (Ausstellung im B.C.Koekkoek-Haus Kleve), Kleve/Goch 2016, p. 181, cat. no. 11, illus.

This work is among the few known dated pieces by Cornelis Lieste, and is unusually large in comparison to Lieste's other works.