Pieter de Bloot

Rotterdam c.1601/2- 1658

Interior of a barn with kitchen utensils together with a boar and three chickens, a group of peasants in the background

Oil on panel 41,8 x 62,2 cm.
signed PBloot and dated 1637

Description

Provenance
Peter Norton
Wyndham Dalling Mc Leod
With E.Burg-Berger
Private collection

Exhibited
Helsinki, Atheneum Art Museum 1974

Literature
L.Grisebach, Willem Kalf, 1619-1693, Berlin 1974, p.312, repr.183

Noitice
Pieter de Bloot primarily painted landscapes and genre works, especially of countryside views and peasant subjects. He was influenced by Jan van Goyen and David Teniers. Willem Kalf was influenced by de Bloot.