Lot 62
62
Attributed to Adam Frans van der Meulen (Brussels 1632-1690 Paris)
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Attributed to Adam Frans van der Meulen (Brussels 1632-1690 Paris)

A wooded landscape with horses and figures in a French military encampment; and An extensive landscape with horses on a bluff above a British military encampment

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Attributed to Adam Frans van der Meulen (Brussels 1632-1690 Paris)
A wooded landscape with horses and figures in a French military encampment; and An extensive landscape with horses on a bluff above a British military encampment
oil on canvas
21 5/8 x 27 in. (54.9 x 68.6 cm.)
in English early 18th Century carved and gilded frames
a pair (2)
Provenance
D.P. Sellar; Christie's, London, 8 July 1897, lot 137 (as Wouwermans, withdrawn before the sale).
with The Grafton Galleries, 1898 (according to a label on the reverse).
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Lot Essay

The five horses under the tree in the first picture correspond with minor differences to a Study of five horses by Van der Meulen in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen (inv. no. D.896-2; see catalogue of the exhibition A la gloire du Roi. Van der Meulen, peintre des conquêtes de Louis XIV, Dijon and Luxembourg, 1998-99, p. 199, no. 88). According to this exhibition catalogue, the latter is probably one of nine studies mentioned by Yvart in the inventory of works for the Manufacture des Gobelins tapestries, under number 88. Van der Meulen executed a number of small canvases of this type after his arrival in France, apparently working from horses that were in the Grandes Ecuries at Versailles.

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