PHILIPS WOUWERMAN | HUNTERS RESTING AT A COUNTRY INN

François Nieuwenhuys, by whom sold, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 28 April 1881, lot 29;

Martin Rikoff, by whom sold, Paris, George Petit, 4 December 1907, lot 26;

John N. Willys, New York, by 1925;

By whom sold, New York, Parke-Bernet, 25 October 1945, lot 21;

J.Theodore Cremer, New York;

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 9 December 1987, lot 87;

With Robert Noortman Gallery, London;

With Bob Haboldt, Ltd., New York/Paris;

From whom purchased July 1989 by the present collector. 

P. Eudel, L'Hôtel Drouot en 1881, Paris 1882, p. 127;

C. Hofstede de Groot, A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch painters of the seventeenth century... London 1909, vol. II, p. 473, cat. no. 697aa;

R. Flint, "John N. Willys Collection," in International Studio vol. LXXX, February 1925, p. 370;

B. Schumacher, Philips Wouwerman (1619 - 1668): The Horse Painter of the Golden Age, Doornspijk 2006, vol. I, pp. 248-9, cat. no. A197, reproduced vol. II, color plate 24 and plate 186 (as faintly signed).

Wouwermans favored scenes from hunting excursions as they allowed him to display his talent as an equestrian painter as well as a landscapist. His success in his lifetime with these scenes was paralleled only by his posthumous popularity among wealthy collectors.