PHILIPS WOUWERMAN | A grotto with travellers unloading a wagon, a gypsy fortune-teller, a blacksmith and other figures

Possibly William J. Tripp, Cotham, near Bristol;

Mr and Mrs Edgar Assheton Bennett, London, 1930;

F. Coates;

Private collection, Paris;

With Eugene Slatter, London, 1944–45;

With Brian Koetser, London, 1969–70 (advertised in Apollo, October 1969, p. 331; and in The Connoisseur, June 1970, p. 129);

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 27 June 1975, lot 70;

Anonymous sale, Cologne, Lempertz, 23–26 November 1983, lot 1743;

Private collection;

Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Christie's, 16 November 2005, lot 92;

With Rafael Valls Limited, London, 2006.

London, Eugene Slatter, Life and Still Life in 17th century Netherlands, 29 November 1944 – 13 January 1945, no. 47;

London, Brian Koetser Gallery, Exhibition of paintings by Old Masters, 7 October – December 1969, no. 16;

London, Rafael Valls, Recent acquisitions, 2006, no. 40.

Possibly J. Smith, A catalogue raisonné... Supplement, London 1842, p. 224, cat. no. 249;

Possibly C. Hofstede de Groot, A catalogue raisonné..., vol. II, London 1908, p. 555, cat. no. 928 (with corresponding description, but differing dimensions and on panel);

B. Schumacher, Philips Wouwerman (1619–1668). The Horse Painter of the Golden Age, Doornspijk 2006, vol. I, pp. 340–41, cat. no. A432, reproduced vol. II, plate 403.

Dr Birgit Schumacher (see Literature) notes that this is a late work by Wouwerman, with some participation of the studio, datable to around 1665.