Old Masters including Portrait Miniatures from the Pohl-Ströher Collection
Old Masters including Portrait Miniatures from the Pohl-Ströher Collection
Property from a Private Collection
PHILIPS WOUWERMAN | Figures and horses on the shore, with sailing boats beyond
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20,000 - 30,000 GBP
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Property from a Private Collection
PHILIPS WOUWERMAN
Haarlem 1619 - 1668
FIGURES AND HORSES ON THE SHORE, WITH SAILING BOATS BEYOND
signed with monogram lower left: PH.W
oil on oak panel
unframed: 32.1 x 42.5 cm.; 12⅝ x 16¾ in.
framed: 50.5 x 60.5 cm.; 19 7/8 x 23 7/8 in.
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Joseph Antoine Crozat, marquis de Tugny (1699-1751), Paris;
His posthumous sale, Paris, on the premises, June 1751, lot 22, for 1230 Livres to Cressent;
Sir Simon Haughton Clarke, 9th Bt. (1764-1832), and George Hibbert (1757-1837), London;
Their sale, London, Christie's, 14-15 May 1802, lot 69, for 315 Guineas to William Dermer;
Jeremiah Harman (1763-1844), Higham House, Woodford, by 1829;
His posthumous sale, London, Christie's, 17 May 1844, lot 47, for 250 Guineas to Christianus Johannes Nieuwenhuys;
Private collection;
Whence sold, New York, Christie’s, 2 June 1988, lot 80;
With Johnny van Haeften, London, before 2006.
J. Smith, A catalogue raisonné…, vol. I, London 1829, p. 265, cat. no. 226, and pp. 328-9, cat. no. 437;
C. Blanc, Le Trésor de la Curiosité, Paris 1857, vol. I, p. 61;
C. Hofstede de Groot, A catalogue raisonné…, vol. II, London 1909, p. 584, cat. no. 999;
F. Duparc, Italian Recollections. Dutch painters of the Golden Age, exh. cat., Montreal 1990, p. 44, note 46;
B. Schumacher, Philips Wouwerman (1619-1668). Horse Painter of the Golden Age, Doornspijk 2006, vol. 1, p. 354, cat. no. A464, reproduced vol. 2, plate 434.
This work is the prototype for a number of versions and copies of the composition, which has led to some confusion over the provenance of certain of the paintings. The present work has been identified with the picture formerly in the Max Wassermann collection, but close comparison of photographs from old sale catalogues suggests that they are not one and the same.1 The early provenance of this painting (which has also previously been erroneously associated with the Wassermann panel) is confirmed by Danckerts' engraving, which includes the figures either side of the horseman on the left - found here, but not in the Wasserman version.2
1 Namely see the reproduction in the restitution sale: 'Ancienne collection du Docteur Max Wassermann', Paris, Palais Galliera, 26-27 November 1967, lot 45.