Johannes Rosierse (Dutch, 1818-1901)
Johannes Rosierse (Dutch, 1818-1901)
A Game of Draughts
Oil on Panel
- Signed 'J Rosierse fecit' lower left.
- Similar listed to $96,000.00 USD at auction.
- Painting - 40.5cm x 32cm
- Frame - 51cm x 43cm
Lot Notes
A very fine oil painting on panel depicting a family group in a candlelit interior with a couple playing draughts by Johannes Rosierse. Signed lower left.
Condition
In very fine condition. The panel not warped, split or repaired. Clean, highly attractive, well framed and ready to hang.
Artist Information
Johannes Rosierse was born in Dordrecht, 11th September 1818, coincidentally close to the home of Godfried Schalcken (1643-1706), the prime exponent of candlelit paintings and nocturnal scenes of the seventeenth century. Rosierse as a youth was apprenticed to a shoemaker before becoming a pupil of the artist, Michael Versteeg (1746-1843). He was a painter of figures, interiors and market scenes, but it is as a painter of these subjects by lamplight or candlelight that he is renowned. He is likely to have seen and studied the work of Schalcken in Dordrecht and so to have adopted this genre. Rosierse worked and exhibited in Amsterdam, Groningen and The Hague, and briefly in Leeuwarden in 1855. His works can be found in museums in: Dordrecht; Leeuwarden; Montpelier and Rotterdam.