SwissArtGallery · Documented identity
Cornelis van Poelenburgh’s small-scale Italian landscapes combine biblical, mythological or literary subjects with Arcadian settings, often populated by nude figures and ruins. Painted on panel or copper, they are distinguished in the sources by light described as limpid. Trained by Abraham Bloemaert, he left for Rome around 1617. He also stayed in Florence, where he worked for Grand Duke Cosimo II de’ Medici, and then returned to Utrecht.
The Dance of the Satyrs, an oil painting on copper dated 1620–1622, is held at the Palatine Gallery in the Pitti Palace in Florence. The Fanciful View of the Campo Vaccino in Rome with a Donkey, also painted on copper and dated 1620, belongs to the collections of the Louvre. A Römische Landschaft mit Ruinen und Reisenden, presented under his name by the Lempertz auction house, is an oil painting on wood, monogrammed “C.P.” at the lower right.
On his return to Utrecht, he opened a studio where Daniel Vertangen, Dirck van der Lisse and Jan van Haensbergen, among others, worked. In 1627, Rubens bought several of his works during a visit to the city. The Utrecht collector Herman van Wyttenhorst owned twenty-five paintings by the artist, who is also the painter most strongly represented in the collection of Stadtholder Frederick Henry.
This profile brings together identity references for Cornelius van Poelenburgh and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
Lempertz · DognyAuction · Piguet · Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer · Schuler · Dobiaschofsky
References include catalogue entries and available results; they do not all represent completed sales. Attributed works and special lots are excluded from the priced results.
Oil on wood
Römische Landschaft mit Ruinen und Reisenden
Öl auf Holz
Auction date : 2015-11-14
Published result : 14880 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 10000
View the lot at the auction house ↗
Oil on canvas
Idyllische Landschaft mit Figurenstaffage
huile sur toile
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 1500–2000
View the lot at the auction house ↗
huile sur cuivre
Catalogue period : 2020-07-01
Published result : 1000 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1500–2500
View the lot at the auction house ↗These references are shown separately because of their attribution or lot composition. Each record states the reason.
Oil on wood
in der Art Hirtenpaar mit Kleinkind und ihrer Herde vor einer Ruine
Öl auf Holz
Attribution ou qualification signalée dans le catalogue
Catalogue period : 2024-09-12
Attribution recorded in catalogue
Published result : 400 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 400–700
View the lot at the auction house ↗
Oil on wood
in der Art Hirtenpaar mit Kleinkind und ihrer Herde vor einer Ruine
Öl auf Holz
Attribution ou qualification signalée dans le catalogue
Catalogue period : 2024-06-12
Attribution recorded in catalogue
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 800–1400
View the lot at the auction house ↗
Oil on wood
Die Geburt Christi
Öl auf Holz
zugeschrieben
Catalogue period : 2020-06-24
Attributed
Published result : 4862 CHF
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : CHF 4000–6000
View the lot at the auction house ↗Oil on wood
Suiveur de CORNELIS VAN POELENBURGH — Ruhe auf der Flucht.
Öl auf Holz
Nachfolger
Catalogue period : 2013-05-17
Follower of
Published result : 1900 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1600
View the lot at the auction house ↗
Oil on panel
Entourage de Cornelis van Poelenburgh — Nymphes au bain dans une grotte abritant un sarcophage,
huile sur panneau
entourage de
Catalogue period : 2021-06-09
Circle of
Published result : 1400 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1500–2500
View the lot at the auction house ↗SwissArtGallery documentary note based on the cited sources. Titles, media and qualifications are provided in the profile language; the original catalogue wording remains available in each record.
Profile updated :
Recently enriched profiles
Born in Santiago, Chile, in 1927, Ivan Contreras-Brunet made his first paintings in the early 1940s; he died in Vendôme, France, in 2021. After these early works, he attended courses…
2 auction referencesAmerican painter Albert Contreras, born in 1933 and deceased in 2017, is represented in the available information by an abstract composition titled “Composition with Orange Circle No…
1 auction referenceHerbert Bayer was born in Austria in 1900 and died in the United States in 1985; his practice encompassed typography, photography, design, painting, architecture and sculpture. This…
6 auction references