PROPERTY OF THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ACQUISITIONS FUND*

Attributed to Philips Wouwerman (Haarlem 1619-1668)

The repose of a hawking party by a walled garden, a landscape beyond

Details

Attributed to Philips Wouwerman (Haarlem 1619-1668)
The repose of a hawking party by a walled garden, a landscape beyond
oil on panel
19 x 25½ in. (48.3 x 64.8 cm.)

Provenance

Jan Pieter Snijers, Antwerp, as Philips Wouwerman, by whom sold for 514 florins to
Willem Lorimer (1682-1758), solicitaire miltaire, collector and dealer, The Hague, no. 337 in his store-room catalogue of December 1754; (+) sale, Francken, The Hague, 4 July 1763, lot 324, where acquired for 900 florins by Captain Baillie on behalf of
Sir James Lowther.
Sale, Amsterdam, 17 September 1766, lot 73 (1145 florins).
Earl of Lonsdale, Lowther Castle, no. 235, by 1842.
Mrs. James E. Scripps.

Literature

J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné, etc., London, I, 1829, p. 218, no. 53, as Philips Wouwerman; and (Supplement), 1842, p. 156, no. 53, as Philips Wouwerman, and in the collection of the Earl of Lonsdale, Lowther Castle, no. 235.
G.F. Waagen, Art Treasures in Great Britain, London, 1854, III, p. 262, as Philips Wouwerman, and in the collection of the Earl of Lonsdale, Lowther Castle ('A rich and very picturesque composition of his second manner. Very spirited and delicate in execution...').
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné..., etc., London, II, 1909, pp. 417-418, no. 539, as Philips Wouwerman.

Lot Essay

The present work may once have been paired with another work also bought from the Lorimer collection by Captain Baillie for Sir James Lowther (J. Smith, op. cit., Supplement, no. 54, a 'capital picture', and C. Hofstede de Groot, op. cit., no. 864). On the basis of transparencies, Prof. W. Maier-Preusker has rejected that attribtuion to Philips Wouwerman (written communication, 23 November 2000).

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