CAREL LODEWIJK DAKE JR(Schaerbeek, Belgium 1886 – Jakarta 1946)Sunset Sawah view, West Java Oil on wood: 87 x 107 cmSigned “CL. Dake Jr” on the lower right corner.Provenance: the collection of a Dutch noblewoman lived in Indonesia, acquired before 1975.Carel Lodewijk Dake Jr was born in Schaerbeek, Belgium, in 1886. He arrived in Indonesia in 1912 In the next years he travelled in the archipelago and to many other South-east Asian countries. The main subject of his paintings is the Indonesian landscape, and in particular the ancient ruins of Angkor Wat. In 1915 he created the Indonesian diorama for the World Fair in San Francisco, USA.