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Philips Wouwerman (1619-1668)
Lot 18FROM A FRENCH PRIVATE COLLECTION

Philips Wouwerman (1619-1668)

Soldiers carousing with a serving Woman outside a Tent

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GBP 210,500

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Philips Wouwerman (1619-1668)
Soldiers carousing with a serving Woman outside a Tent
signed with monogram 'PHLS · W' (lower right)
oil on panel
16 x 13¾in. (40.7 x 35cm.)
In an early 19th Century composition frame.

Tronchin; sale, Lebrun, Paris, 14 Jan. 1780 (= 3rd day), lot 53 (2,300 francs).
Marquis de Montesquiou; sale, Lebrun, Paris, 9 Dec. 1788, lot 124 (with a pendant: 5,000 francs).
Baron François Delessert, Paris, by 1842; sale, Pillet, Paris, 15-18 March 1869, lot 107 (25,500 or 26,500 francs).
de Zoete (inscribed on a label on the reverse).

Specialist note

Hofstede de Groot described this as the pendant to Two Gentlemen hawking at an Inn (op. cit., p. 340, no. 292), which was sold together with the present picture in a single lot for 5,000 francs in the Marquis de Montesquiou sale in 1788. Although it is unclear whether the two were painted as pendants, they were also sold as consecutive lots in the 1780 Tronchin sale (lot 54, described as a man dismounted from his horse with a young woman near a well, two boys in the background, with kitchen utensils and chickens in the foreground; the dimensions given are slightly smaller than those of the present picture) and in the 1869 Delessert sale (lot 108).