17th century Flemish and Dutch paintings

This is a comparative item

Pieter de Putter
One of a pair of paintings : a fisherman with freshwater fish on a table
Oil on panel : 107 X 78 cm/each
Both signed with a monogram “DPVR” or “DPVTR”
Unsold at Hampel Munich, 21/09/07
Estimate : 65-80.000 €/the pair (+ 26%)
Sold at Dorotheum Vienna, 16/12/21
For 9.600 €/the pair


 


This is a comparative item
Click photo for more details

Painting for Sale
Click photo for more details
Putter, Pieter de
"Fishing and hunting still life"
 
In short
 
Pieter de Putter must have been the very first fish still life painter in the Northern Netherlands. He spent almost his entire career in The Hague. Although he lived not far from the sea he painted almost exclusively freshwater fish. He painted his three favourite fish here: bream, perch and Northern pike.
 
About Pieter de Putter
 
Dutch painter
Probably born in Middlburg circa 1600 - 1659 Beverwijk
 
Painter of fish still lifes; occasionally he also painted the interiors of a fisherman’s shed and portraits.
Pieter de Putter was probably the first painter in the Northern Netherlands who specialised in fish still-life painting. According to Fred G. Meijer he must have started depicting fish somewhere in the 1630s.
 
 
His family had already moved to The Hague before 1605. He was probably a pupil of his father, Joost.
Pieter de Putter spent his complete career in The Hague. He moved to Beverwijk, 20 km NW of Amsterdam, in the year before his death.
 
  
He was the teacher of the still life painter Jacob Biltius. 
 
Pieter de Putter signed his paintings with a complex monogram “PDVTR”,
with the “P” inside the “D”. 
There is only one dated work known by our painter, from 1644.
 
 
About our painting
 
De Putter almost exclusively painted freshwater fish. The following fish are represented in our still life:
 
- The large fish at the centre is a bream. 
- The two fishes above and under its tail are perches.
- The top fish at right is a Northern pike.
(in Dutch that is “brasem, baars en snoek”).
 
As you can see in the comparative works these are the three favourite (freshwater) fish that de Putter painted.
 
Why should you buy this painting?
 
Because this is already a more elaborate composition, in which de Putter has added two dead birds.
 
 
 
 
Comparative paintings
Click photos for more details