Philips Wouwerman (1619-1668)

THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

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Philips Wouwerman (1619-1668)

A Winter Landscape with a Grey feeding and Peasants chopping and loading Faggots onto a Chestnut, boys playing on the ice beyond

on panel

12 3/8 x 16 7/8in. (31.4 x 43cm.)

Provenance

Dezalier d'Argenville, Maître des Comptes, by 1754; sale, Remy, Paris, 3ff. March 1766 (purchased by the Empress Catherine II of Russia)
The Hermitage Palace, St. Petersburg (Cat. 1901, no.1040)

Literature

J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné, etc., I, 1829, p.218, no.51;
IX (Supplement), 1842, p.146, no.23
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné, etc., II, 1909, pp.588-9, no.1008

Engraved

Jean Moyreau (in reverse), 1754, as 'Les Bucherons' in Oeuvres de Philippe Wouwermans gravées d'après ses meilleurs tableaux dans les plus beaux cabinets de Paris et ailleurs, 1737-62

Lot Essay

From the engraving and the measurements given by Smith
(12 x 18in./13 x 18in.) and Hofstede de Groot (12½ x 19in.). it seems clear that the present picture has been cut on the left side, removing the corner of a cottage and presumably the monogram recorded by Hofstede de Groot 'on the left at foot'

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