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Cornelis Bega worked in Haarlem, where he joined the Guild of Saint Luke in 1654. Coming from a family of artists and craftspeople, he painted genre scenes featuring musicians, drinkers, alchemists and peasant families. In the Rijksmuseum’s Saying Grace, dated 1663, an elderly man and a young woman pray before their meal. Attention to this domestic moment accompanies the representation of a modest interior.
The Getty’s Alchemist, also painted in 1663, shows a figure weighing a substance among vessels and instruments. The treatment of surfaces gives this working environment a material presence. His Boy in a Beret Leaning Back, drawn around 1661–1664 and preserved in the Rijksmuseum, instead studies a single figure, using black and white chalk as its principal drawing materials.
This profile brings together identity references for Cornelis Pietersz Bega and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
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Oil on canvas
Interieur mit einer Frau am Spinnrad, rechts ein Mann
Öl auf Leinwand
Catalogue period : 2017-03-24
Published result : 15000 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 4000–6000
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