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Lot 133
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Philips Wouwerman

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Description

  • Philips Wouwerman
  • A cavalier on a white horse with other travellers on a rocky road, mountains beyond
  • signed in monogram lower right: PH (in ligature) S.W
  • oil on panel

Provenance

C. Sillems, Hamburg, 1842;
J. Amsinck, Hamburg;
In the Hamburg Kunsthalle, Amsinck bequest 1879 (1887, cat. no. 210);
S. or L. Roschkrauz, 5 December 1922;
Private English Collection;
With Brian Koetser, London, from whom purchased by Mr. Court for £6,800 on 24 May 1971.

Exhibited

London, Brian Koetser Gallery, Spring Exhibition, 1971, no. 15.

Literature

C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné..., vol. II, London 1909, p. 347, no. 316 ('a very fine example of the transition period').

Catalogue Note

We are grateful to Professor Dr. Wolfgang Maier-Preusker and to Dr. Birgit Schumacher for independently endorsing the attribution to Wouwerman, on the basis of photographs. Dr. Schumacher has proposed a date of execution of circa 1648-49.