Philips Wouwerman (Haarlem 1619-1668)

Horsemen making a halt before an inn, children riding a hobby-horse in the foreground, a haystack and a hilly landscape beyond

Details

Philips Wouwerman (Haarlem 1619-1668)
Horsemen making a halt before an inn, children riding a hobby-horse in the foreground, a haystack and a hilly landscape beyond
signed with monogram 'PHL : W' (lower left)
oil on panel
35 x 44.2 cm.
with old inventory numbers and two red wax seals on the reverse.

Provenance

(Possibly) collection Wetzlar (according to an annotation on an old photograph in the RKD, The Hague).
with P. de Boer, Amsterdam, 1960, where acquired by the late father of the present owners.

Lot Essay

We are grateful to Dr. Birgit Schumacher for confirming the attribution to Philips Wouwerman, after inspection of the original painting (verbal communication 30 July 2015). Dr. Schumacher dates the present work to 1645-47. The use of specific pigments, the facial types, the rendering of the landscape and folliage, the clair-obscure and the notable development towards a detailed depiction, all point to an execution date within these years.

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