Hendrik Johannes Knip (1819-1897)
Landscape with hunting scene
Gouache on paper
The Netherlands, circa 1880
50 x 71 cm
Private Collection
Henri Knip (Den Bosch 1819-1897 Brussels)
Henri Knip worked with oil on canvas, made pen drawings and watercolors. He also made gouaches, in which opaque paint was used. This work by Henri Knip is a gouache on paper depicting a landscape in Switzerland with a hunting scene.
Landscapes, village views and churches were the artist's favorite subjects.
It's 'All in the family'
Henriette Ronner-Knip (1821-1909) is the well-known cat painter.
She learned to draw and paint from her father, the painter Josephus Augustus Knip (1777-1847), a first cousin of Henri Knip.