Meindert Hobbema
A View on a High Road
166593.1 x 127.8 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower left: m. hobbema. / 1665
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
Literature
Collection catalogues
Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century, Washington; New York and Oxford, 1995, pp. 123-127
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 391
Provenance
Mme Jean Etienne Fizeau (née Marie Anne Massé, died 1790), Amsterdam
sale, Amsterdam, 27 April 1791
Welbore Ellis Agar (1735-1805)
by inheritance to his two illegitimate sons, Welbore Felix Agar and Emmanuel Felix Agar
sold 1806 to Robert Grosvenor, 1st marquess of Westminster (1767-1845)
by inheritance to his grandson, Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 1st duke of Westminster (1825-1899), Grosvenor House, London
purchased 1912 by Baron Alfred Charles de Rothschild (1842-1918), London and Halton House, near Wendover, Buckinghamshire
bequeathed to his illegitimate daughter, Almina Victoria, Countess of Carnarvon (c. 1877-1969, later Mrs. Ian Onslow Dennistoun), London
sold 1924 to Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris
sold November 1924 to Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.
deeded 28 December 1934 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh
gift 1937 to NGA
Other works by Meindert Hobbema
Landscape near Deventer
c. 1662-63
c. 1662-63
Wooded Landscape with Merrymakers in a Cart
c. 1665
c. 1665
A Farm in the Sunlight
1668
1668
The Watermill with the Great Red Roof
1662/65
1662/65
The entrance to the forest
c. 1663-65
c. 1663-65