Paulus Pietersz. Potter

Maria Trip, Madame Douairière Louise van Alphen-Hovy (1740–1813), Amsterdam;

Her posthumous sale, Amsterdam, Van der Schley et al., 23 September 1814, lot 16, for 2,710 Dutch Guilders, to Van Yperen;

Jean-Joseph-Pierre-Augustin Lapeyrière, called Augustin Lapeyrière (1779–1831), Paris;

His sale, Paris, A. Perignon and A. Coquille, 14 April 1817, lot 43, for 17,230 French francs, to A. Coquille;

With Alexis Delahante (1767–1837), Paris and London;

His sale, London, Phillips, 14 July 1821, lot 110, for £798, to M. Lapeyrière;

Jean-Joseph-Pierre-Augustin Lapeyrière, called Augustin Lapeyrière (1779–1831), Paris;

His sale, Paris, Henry, 19 April 1825, lot 138, for 28,900 French francs, to the Duchesse d’Alberg;

Edward Adolphus Seymour, 11th Duke of Somerset (1775–1855), London, 1828;

By descent to Edward Adolphus St. Maur, 12th Duke of Somerset, KG, PC (1804–1885);

His sale, London, Christie’s, 28 June 1890, lot 32, for 5,800 guineas, to Agnew;

With Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 1890;

Where acquired by Samuel Cunliffe Lister, 1st Baron Masham (1815–1906), Yorkshire;

By descent to the present owner.

London, British Institution, 1828, no. 74;

London, British Institution, May 1835, no. 7;

London, Royal Academy, 17th century Art in Europe, 3 January – 12 March 1938, no. 247;

The Hague, Mauritshuis, The Pleasures of Paulus Potter’s Countryside, 8 November 1994 – 5 February 1995, no. 5. 

J. Smith, A catalogue raisonné..., vol. V, London 1834, pp. 142–43, no. 59;

G.F. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, vol. II, London 1854, p. 337;

C. Blanc, Le trésor de la curiosité tire des catalogues de vente […], vol. II, Paris 1857–58, pp. 332–33;

T. van Westrheene, Paulus Potter. Sa vie et ses œuvres, The Hague 1867, p. 155, no. 29;

C. Hofstede de Groot, A catalogue raisonné..., vol. IV, London 1912, p. 653, no. 92;

A.L. Walsh, Paulus Potter: his works and their meaning, unpublished PhD thesis, Columbia University, 1985, pp. 161–66, reproduced fig. B 23;

E. Buijsen, in Paulus Potter. Paintings, Drawings and Etchings, A. Walsh, E. Buijsen and B. Broos (eds), exh. cat., The Hague and Zwolle 1995, pp. 66–67, no. 5, reproduced in colour.