Paulus Potter

Literature

Neil MacLaren, revised and expanded by Christopher Brown, The Dutch school, 1600-1900, London, 1991, p. 315, plate 274
Christopher Baker and Tom Henry, The National Gallery complete illustrated catalogue, London, 2001, p. 541

Exhibitions

2001 Vermeer and the Delft School, Nr. 55
1994 Paulus Potter, Nr. 7

Provenance

collection of Jan and Pieter Bisschop of Rotterdam by 1752
bought with the Bisschop collection by Adriaen and John Hope of Amsterdam, 1771
John Hope's sons, Thomas Henry and Henry Philip Hope, settled in England c.1796
Henry Philip Hope by 1815
passed to his nephew, Henry Thomas Hope of Deepdene, 1839
Mrs Henry Thomas Hope by 1881
bequeathed by Mrs Henry Hope to her grandson, Lord Henry Francis Pelham-Clinton-Hope
part of the collection sold by Lord Francis to Asher Wertheimer, London, 1898
George Salting, London
National Gallery, London, Salting Bequest, 1910
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External links

National Gallery, London Accession number NG2583

Other works by Paulus Potter

The Spotted Horse
1653

God appearing to Abraham at Sichem
1642

The Spotted Horse
1649

Punishment of a Hunter
c. 1650

The Bull
1647