PHILIPS WOUWERMAN (HAARLEM 1619-1668) - photo 1
PHILIPS WOUWERMAN (HAARLEM 1619-1668) - photo 2
PHILIPS WOUWERMAN (HAARLEM 1619-1668) - photo 3
PHILIPS WOUWERMAN (HAARLEM 1619-1668) - photo 4

PHILIPS WOUWERMAN (HAARLEM 1619-1668)

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£ 200 000
Auction dateClassic
07.12.2023 14:30UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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ID 1086612
Lot 15 | PHILIPS WOUWERMAN (HAARLEM 1619-1668)
PHILIPS WOUWERMAN (HAARLEM 1619-1668)

Riders and horses resting by a river

signed with monogram 'PHILS·W' (lower left)

oil on panel

15 x 20 in. (38.1 x 50.8 cm.)





Provenance

Lucien Bonaparte, 1st Prince of Canino and Musignano (1775-1840), by 1804, Palazzo Lancellotti ai Coronari, Rome, 'Primo Sallone', and then Palazzo Nuñez, Rome, 'Stanza I', by 1806; his sale, Buchanan, London, 6 February 1815 and following days, lot 58.

Francis Isaac du Roveray (1772-1849), London; Christie's, London, 27 May 1820, lot 64, as 'Horsemen in a Landscape, with a fog dispersing; of his best time, and one of his finest works...' (200 gns. to Norton).

Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), Paris.

Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), Hôtel Saint-Florentin, Paris.

Confiscated from the above by the Devisenschutzkommando following the Nazi occupation of France in May 1940.

Anonymous sale; Hôtel des Ventes Bayeux (Étude Bailleul), Bayeux, 10-11 November 1993.

Private collection, France.

with Richard Green, London, from whom acquired by the present owners in 1993.



Literature

D.C. Bozzani, Galleria Bonaparte, Roma, 13 Giunio 1804, Archivio di Stato, Rome, Camerale II, Antichità e Belle Arti 7, fasc. 204, f. 1, no. 31 or 32.

G.A. Guattani, Galleria del Senatore Luciano Bonaparte, I, Rome, 1808, p. 3, no. 2 or 3.

Choix de gravures à l'eau-forte d'après les peintures et les marbres de la galerie de Lucien Bonaparte, London, 1812, no. 22.

W. Buchanan, Memoirs of Painting, with a Chronological History of the Importation of Pictures by the Great Masters into England since the French Revolution, II, London, 1824, pp. 286 and 291, no. 109 or p. 292, no. 139.

J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters etc., I, London, 1829, p. 323, no. 419.

C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, II, London, 1909, p. 288, no. 104 (with incorrect reference to Lucien Bonaparte's 1816 sale).

D. Martinez de la Peña y Gonzales, ‘Sobre la collección de pinturas de Luciano Bonaparte (documentos del avril-5)’, Miscellanea de Arte, 1982, p. 251.

B. Edelein-Badie, La collection de tableaux de Lucien Bonaparte, prince de Canino, Paris, 1997, p. 293, no. 289.

B. Schumacher, Philips Wouwerman (1619-1668): The Horse Painter of the Golden Age, I, Doornspijk, 2006, p. 194, no. A64; II, pl. 63 (with incorrect reference to Lucien Bonaparte's 1816 sale).



Exhibited

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, on loan, 2001-2015.
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