Hendrick Schoock and Gerard Hoet the Elder

Hendrick Schook und Gerard Hoet, Allegorie des Frühlings, Kunsthandel Mühlbauer

Hendrick Schoock and Gerard Hoet the Elder

Allegory of Spring (Flora with Putt)

Hendrick Schoock and Gerard Hoet the Elder (1630 – after 1770 and 1648 – 1733)

Counterpart to « Allegory of Autumn (Vertumus and Pomona) »

one signed “G. Hoet – H. Schoock”
Oil on Canvas
103 × 133,5 cm

Both painters formed in 1696 a drawing-academy in Utrecht. A similar “Allegory of Autumn” is in the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.