(Terheide 1806–1870 Brussels)
Night market in The Hague, signed, dated P. Van Schendel.1840, oil on panel, 90 x 105 cm, framed, (GG)

Provenance:
European Private Collection.

Exhibited:
Breda, Breda’s Museum and Luxembourg, Villa Vauban, Petrus Van Schendel: Master of the Evening Light/Die Farben der Nacht. Der Maler Petrus van Schendel, 2012–2013.

Catalogued and illustrated in:
Jan de Meere, Petrus van Schendel, een leven tussen licht en donker, 2012, p. 80, no. 168.

We are grateful to Dr. Jan de Meere who confirmed the authenticity on basis of the original

The present lot likely depicts a corner of De Grote Markt in the Hague. It shows a poultry dealer to the left offering her goods to two ladies, illuminated by candlelight. In the stall on the right-hand side, fruits are offered to a buyer by candlelight, as a boy sits watching in the foreground, with a lady to the right. Between the two stalls, a man has been hired to push a wheelbarrow containing suitcases and a trunk. In the background, more people are walking to the market, while a lantern to the right illuminates the façades of the houses and the entrance to the street. There is also a light outside a shop and behind the fountain, while other sources of light are shown indirectly behind the windows and curtains.