Paulus Potter
Figures with horses by a stable
164745 x 37.5 cm
Oil on panel
Signed and dated lower left: Paulus Potter•ƒ•1647
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
The William L. Elkins Collection
Literature
Peter C. Sutton, Northern European Paintings in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 1990, nr. 85
Exhibitions
2001 Vermeer and the Delft School, Nr. 54
1994 Paulus Potter, Nr. 11
1990 Great Dutch Paintings in America, Nr. 49
Provenance
Sale Plattenberg, Amsterdam 2 April 1738, nr. 66
Willem Lornier, who sold it to J.W. Frank, 4 June 1756
H.P. Hope, London, by 1815
by descent to Henry Thomas Hope, London, by 1854
by descent to Lord Francis Pelham Clinton-Hope, Deepdene
sold to P. & D. Colnaghi and A. Wertheimer with entire collection, 1898
William L. Elkins Collection, Philadelphia, by 1899
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Other works by Paulus Potter
Driving the Cattle to Pasture in the Morning
1647
1647
Landscape with Shepherdess and Shepherd Playing Flute
c. 1642/43
c. 1642/43
Landscape with Two Cows and a Goat
The Blacksmith
1648
1648
Landscape with cattle and milkmaid
1643
1643