ID 887486
Lot 6 | PHILIPS WOUWERMAN (HAARLEM 1619-1668)
Estimate value
$ 250 000 – 350 000
A landscape with falconers
signed with initials ‘PHLS W’ (‘PHLS’ linked, lower right)
oil on panel
12 1/4 x 17 5/8 in. (31.1 x 44.8 cm.)
Provenance
[Meffre aîne]; his sale, François and Wéry, Paris, 25 February 1845, lot 104.
Mr. Piérard, Valenciennes; (†) his sale, Laneuville and Le Roy, Paris, 20 March 1860, lot 100 (FF 18,800).
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), Paris, by descent to his son,
Baron Edouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), Paris,
Confiscated after May 1940 from the above following the Nazi occupation of Paris.
Transferred to the German Embassy, Paris and then to the Jeu de Paume, Paris (Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg no. R 100).
Selected by Hermann Göring for the planned “Führermuseum” (Linz no. 1482), 5 February 1941, and sent to the Führerbau, Munich.
Recovered by the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section from the salt mines at Alt Aussee (Aussee no. 2104).
Transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 8 July 1945 (MCCP no. 2989).
Repatriated to France, 20 September 1945, and returned to,
Baron Edouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), Paris, by descent to his daughter,
Batsheva de Rothschild (1914-1999), Tel Aviv; (†), Christie’s, London, 13 December 2000, lot 40, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, II, London, 1909, p. 443, no. 613.
H. Miles, Dutch and Flemish, Netherlandish and German Paintings, I, Glasgow, 1961, p. 154, under no. 626.
B. Schumacher, Philips Wouwerman: The Horse Painter of the Golden Age, I, Doornspijk, 2006, pp. 226-227, no. A143; II, pl. 134.
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.
Artist: | Philips Wouwerman (1619 - 1668) |
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Applied technique: | Oil on panel |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, Europe, The Netherlands |
Auction house category: | Paintings |
Artist: | Philips Wouwerman (1619 - 1668) |
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Applied technique: | Oil on panel |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, Europe, The Netherlands |
Auction house category: | Paintings |
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