Philips Wouwermans

A Man and a Woman on Horseback



Philips Wouwermans - A Man and a Woman on Horseback



Philips Wouwermans
A Man and a Woman on Horseback
c. 1653–54
30.8 x 41.3 cm
Oil on wood
Signed, lower left: PHLSW (monogram)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Purchase, Pfeiffer Fund, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and Gift of Dr. Ernest G. Stillman, by exchange, 1971


Literature

Collection catalogues
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 223


Provenance

D. de Vries, until 1825, sold to Emmerson
?Thomas Emmerson, ?London, from 1825
Ludwig I, King of Bavaria, in 1829
Freiherr Carl von Mergenbaum, until 1846
his estate sale, Hofgute Nilkheim, near Aschaffenburg, 13-24 July 1846, nr. 176, to Lee
Hon. W.F.B. Massey-Mainwaring, London, by 1889–1907
sale, Christie's, London, 16 March 1907, nr. 35, to Colnaghi
with Colnaghi, London, from 1907
Leopold Koppel, Berlin, by 1909–died 1933
his daughter, Else Koppel Klotz, from 1933
her son, Leopold Hugo Paul Klotz, until 1970, sold to Schaeffer
with Schaeffer Galleries, New York, 1970–71
sold to MMA

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 1971.48

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