Philips Wouwerman

Jeanne Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes, Comtesse de Verrue (1670–1736), Paris;

Her posthumous sale, Paris, 27 March 1737, lot 35, for 1,510 livres;

Where acquired by 'Ruel' on behalf of M. de Ravanne;

Anonymous sale, London, Langford, 9 March 1776, lot 73, for 100 guineas (as 'enriched with such a multitude of beautiful figures');

Heer Servad, Amsterdam;

His sale, Amsterdam, Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Hendrik de Winter and Jan Yver, 25 June 1778, lot 120, for 2,950 florins (as 'een pronkjuweel van deezen grooten Meester' ('a showpiece of this great Master'));

Where acquired by Pierre Fouquet, Jr. (1729–1800), Amsterdam;

With Alexis Delahante (by whom transported to England);

From whom acquired by Charles Duncombe, later 1st Baron Feversham (1764–1841), Duncombe Park, North Yorkshire, by 1815 (not in 1825, as stated by Schumacher; see Literature), for £800;

Thence by descent;

Until sold ('The Property of the Late the Rt. Hon. The Earl of Feversham, D.S.O. (Sold by Order of the Executors)'), London, Christie’s, 23 June 1967, lot 58, for 15,000 guineas;

Where acquired by Leonard Koetser, London;

From whom acquired by a private collector, Provence, France;

By whom anonymously sold, Monaco, Sotheby’s, 17 June 1988, lot 855, for 4,773,000 francs;

With Verner Åmell, Stockholm, and Newhouse Galleries, New York, by March 1989;

From whom acquired by Dr Hinrich Bischoff (1936–2005);

Thence by inheritance.

London, British Institution, Pictures by Rubens, Rembrandt, Vandyke, and other artists of the Flemish and Dutch Schools, 1815, no. 92 (lent by C. Duncombe, Esq. M.P.);

London, British Institution, Pictures by Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, French and English Masters, June 1855, no. 63 (lent by Lord Feversham);

London, British Institution, Pictures by Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, French and English Masters, June 1865, no. 9 (lent by Lord Feversham);

York, Fine Art and Industrial Exhibition, 1879, no. 421 (lent by the Earl of Feversham);

Berlin, Gemäldegalerie, long-term loan, before 2006–2025 (lent by Dr Hinrich Bischoff).

Engraved

Jean Moyreau (1690–1762), 1738;

Philippe le Bas (1707–1783).

J. Moyreau, Œuvres de Philips Wouwerman Hollandais: Gravées d'après ses meilleurs Tableaux qui sont dans les plus beaux Cabinets de Paris et ailleurs, Paris 1737–62, n.p., under no. 5;

Pictures by Rubens, Rembrandt, Vandyke, and other artists of the Flemish and Dutch Schools, exh. cat., London 1815, p. 18, no. 92;

W. Buchanan, Memoirs of painting, with a chronological history of the importation of pictures by the great masters into England since the French Revolution, London 1824, vol. II, p. 191, no. 4;

J. Smith, A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French painters, vol. I, London 1829, pp. 207–208 and 339, nos 18 and 471;

Pictures by Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, French and English Masters, exh. cat., London 1855, p. 9, no. 63;

G.F. Waagen, Galleries and cabinets of art in Great Britain, London 1857, suppl. vol., p. 494 (as 'a very originally composed picture in [Wouwerman's] second manner');

C. Blanc, Le trésor de la curiosité, vol. I, Paris 1857, p. 4, no. 35;

C. Blanc, ‘Philippe Wouwermans’, in Histoire des peintres de toutes les écoles: école hollandaise, Paris 1861, vol. I, p. 6;

Pictures by Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, French and English Masters, exh. cat., London 1865, p. 8, no. 9;

Fine Art and Industrial Exhibition, exh. cat., York 1879, p. 24, no. 421;

C. Hofstede de Groot, A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch painters of the seventeenth century, vol. II, London 1909, pp. 441 and 443, nos 603 and 612;

H. Mireur, Dictionnaire des ventes d'art faites en France et à l'étranger pendant les XVIIIème et XIXème siècles, vol. VII, Paris 1912, p. 549;

B. Schumacher, Philips Wouwerman (1619–1668): The horse painter of the Golden Age, Ghent 2006, vol. I, pp. 72 and 223–24, no. A136, vol. II, reproduced pl. 127 (with incorrect provenance; the trees in the foreground described as perhaps painted by Wouwerman's workshop, possibly Pieter Wouwerman).