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.
