Philips Wouwerman (1619-1668) , Soldiers carousing with a serving Woman outside a Tent

Sale 5778

Old Master Pictures

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18 April 1997

Browse Sale

Lot 18

Philips Wouwerman (1619-1668)

Soldiers carousing with a serving Woman outside a Tent

Price realised

GBP 210,500

Estimate

GBP 40,000 - GBP 60,000

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Philips Wouwerman (1619-1668)
Soldiers carousing with a serving Woman outside a Tent
signed with monogram 'PHLS · W' (lower right)
oil on panel
16 x 13¾in. (40.7 x 35cm.)
In an early 19th Century composition frame.

Provenance

Tronchin; sale, Lebrun, Paris, 14 Jan. 1780 (= 3rd day), lot 53 (2,300 francs).
Marquis de Montesquiou; sale, Lebrun, Paris, 9 Dec. 1788, lot 124 (with a pendant: 5,000 francs).
Baron François Delessert, Paris, by 1842; sale, Pillet, Paris, 15-18 March 1869, lot 107 (25,500 or 26,500 francs).
de Zoete (inscribed on a label on the reverse).
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Literature and exhibited

Literature

J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné, etc., I, London, 1829, p. 248, no. 164; and IX (Supplement), London, 1842, p. 185, no. 130 'La Trompette. This is a choice example of the master'.
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné, etc., II, London, 1909, p. 547, no. 889.

Lot Essay

Hofstede de Groot described this as the pendant to Two Gentlemen hawking at an Inn (op. cit., p. 340, no. 292), which was sold together with the present picture in a single lot for 5,000 francs in the Marquis de Montesquiou sale in 1788. Although it is unclear whether the two were painted as pendants, they were also sold as consecutive lots in the 1780 Tronchin sale (lot 54, described as a man dismounted from his horse with a young woman near a well, two boys in the background, with kitchen utensils and chickens in the foreground; the dimensions given are slightly smaller than those of the present picture) and in the 1869 Delessert sale (lot 108).

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Pre-Lot Text

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Lot 18

Philips Wouwerman (1619-1668)

Soldiers carousing with a serving Woman outside a Tent

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