Philips Wouwerman

Literature

HdG 714

Provenance

Louis-Philippe, duc d'Orléans (1674-1723), Palais Royal, Paris, and by descent to his great-grandson,
Louis-Philippe-Joseph, duc d'Orléans (1747-1793), by whom sold en bloc with the Dutch and Flemish picture collection in 1791/2 to Thomas Moore Slade, acting on behalf of Lord Kinnaird, Mr Morland and Mr Hammersley (incorrectly identified thereafter by Smith and Hofstede de Groot with a picture belonging to Willem Lormier, The Hague, and in his sale in 1763)
exhibited for sale by private contract in London, April-June, 1793, and again in May 1795
van der Gucht
sale Christie's, London, 11-12 March 1796, nr. 87, where acquired by
Christopher Bullen, Liverpool, 1828 (and still in his collection in 1842 according to Smith)
Baron Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (1808-1879), Exbury, Hampshire, and by descent to his son Alfred Charles de Rothschild (1842-1918), Halton, Buckinghamshire and by descent to Baron Edmond Leopold de Rothschild (1916-2009), Exbury, by whom sold in 1946
with Roland Browse and Delbanco, London, 1948
anonymous sale (Arelaich Trust), Sotheby's, London, 8 April 1987, nr. 57 (sold £170,000)
anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 9 July 1998, lot 12
with Noortman Master Paintings, Maastricht, 2003, when acquired by the present owner
sale Christie's, London, 5 July 2011, nr. 36

Other works by Philips Wouwerman

Landscape with Sandy Path beside a River
c. 1655

Seaport
c. 1660

Rocky Landscape with Resting Riders
c. 1650

Fisher Family on a Dune
c. 1644/45

The Heron Hunt