Petrus van Schendel, Portrait of Adriana Johanna van Wijck, Wife of Johannes Ploos van Amstel

Petrus van Schendel

Dutch · 1806–1870 · Painter

Petrus van Schendel was a Dutch-Belgian genre painter in the Romantic style who specialized in nighttime scenes, lit by lamps or candles. This led to him being known as… (Wikipedia)

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11lots offered2014–2026years recorded90%sold (9)$19.6kSign up free to seemedian price

Record prices

  1. Petrus van Schendel, Vegetable and Fish Night Market in The Hague, Oil on panelVegetable and Fish Night Market in The HagueLempertz · €75,000≈ $84,533≈ £62,948Sign up to see
  2. Petrus van Schendel, Fruit and vegetable retailer at the night market, 1843, oil on panelFruit and vegetable retailer at the night marketim Kinsky · €48,640≈ $60,703≈ £38,522Sign up to see
  3. Petrus van Schendel, The Accusation, Oil on panelThe AccusationLempertz · €34,160≈ $46,786≈ £27,834Sign up to see

Petrus van Schendel’s highest prices recorded at auction, ranked in US dollars at each sale-date exchange rate and shown in the currency of the sale (with the buyer’s premium where the house publishes it).

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Average price
median $19.6kfree account
High
auction record in database
Lots sold
9
of 10 offered · 2014–2026
Sell-through
90%
sold ÷ offered

Price trend

$1k$10k$100k2016201820202022202420262014-05-17 · $46,7862014-11-27 · $60,7032018-05-16 · $7,3062018-05-16 · $18,9962021-11-20 · $84,5332022-11-19 · $19,5922024-11-14 · $25,0262026-03-18 · $6,3382026-06-17 · $1,280
Each dot is a sold lot (price realized incl. premium where published, converted to USD at the sale-date rate; log scale). Dashed line: yearly median.

2 lot(s) catalogued with a qualifier (e.g. “attributed to”, “after”, “circle of”) are listed in the results but excluded from these statistics.

1 lot(s) offered at auction whose result the house did not publish are listed under “Also offered” on the results tab and excluded from these statistics.

By medium

MediumOfferedSoldSell-throughAverageMedianHigh
Paintings10990%$30.1kSign up$19.6kSign up$84.5kSign up
Oil10990%$30.1kSign up$19.6kSign up$84.5kSign up

Medium classes are derived from the medium text as published by each house; “Other” includes lots whose medium wasn’t stated.

By year

YearOfferedSoldMedian
202622$3.8kSign up
202510—Sign up
202411$25kSign up
202211$19.6kSign up
202111$84.5kSign up
201822$13.2kSign up
201422$53.7kSign up

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