A river landscape with peasants and horses on the shore and a ferry crossing

Details

Philips Wouwerman (Haarlem 1619-1668)
A river landscape with peasants and horses on the shore and a ferry crossing
signed with monogram 'PLSW' (lower right)
oil on panel
14½ x 17 7/8 in. (36.9 x 45.4 cm.)

Provenance

Schamp d'Aveschoot; (+) sale, Ghent, 14 September 1840.
Martin Coster, consul-général des Pays-Bas; (+) sale, Paris 10 May 1880.
A. Degeuser, Le Havre; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 13 May 1898, lot 53.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

This hitherto unrecorded composition seems to have the characteristics of a fully autograph mature work by the artist. However, Dr. Birgit Schumacher, to whom we are grateful, has withheld her final judgement subject to studying the picture in the original. While she has admired many aspects of the handling, for instance the fine details in the faces of the figure group and the horses, she also detects certain weaknesses in the face of the baby and the anatomy of the little boy.

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