Fishermen displaying their catch on a rocky coast

Details

Philips Wouwerman (Dutch, 1619-1668)
Fishermen displaying their catch on a rocky coast
oil on panel
15 1/8 x 22 5/8 in. (38.7 x 57.4 cm.)

Provenance

Van Saceghem, Ghent, by 1842; Le Roy, Brussels, 2-3 June 1851, lot 85.
Marquis de Saint-Clou, Paris.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 13 December 1996, lot 9, where acquired by the present owner.

Literature

J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonn..., etc., I, London, 1829, p. 347, no. 260.
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné, etc., II, London, 1909, p. 319, no. 992.
B. Schumacher, Philips Wouwerman (1619-1668): The Horse Painter of the Golden Age, Doornspijk, 2006, I, p. 581, no. A465; II, colour pls. 74 and 74a, pl. 435.

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Lot Essay

Wouwerman was an artist beloved of French collectors in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This important example of his work was in the collection of the Marquis de Saint-Clou, Paris, whose pictures were dispersed in Paris sales in 1874, 1885 and 1889.

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