Philips Wouwerman
St. George and the dragon
166265.7 x 48 cm
Oil on panel
Signed and dated, lower left: PHILS:W / 1662 (PHILS in monogram)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Literature
HdG 25-25b
Schumacher A552
Provenance
anonymous sale, Amsterdam, 4 June 1727, nr. 15
by 1752, Gerret Braamcamp (died 1771), Amsterdam
Braamcamp estate sale, Amsterdam, 31 July 1771, nr. 277, to Pierre Fouquet
François Tronchin (born 1704 - died 1798), Geneva
posthumous Tronchin sale, Constantin, Paris, 27 March 1801, nr. 219, bought in by Jacques Eynard and remained with the family
by descent within the Tronchin family, Château de Bessinge, Geneva
1938, acquired by Xavier Givaudan, Geneva
by inheritance to Claude Givaudan, Geneva and Paris
anonymous (Givaudan?) sale, Hôtel des Ventes, Paris, 28 June 1980, nr. 135, to Galerie Hoogsteder, The Hague
1981, sold by Hoogsteder to the MFA, accession date 15 April 1981
Other works by Philips Wouwerman
A farrier shoeing a piebald horse
c. 1656/60
c. 1656/60
Het Spaens heydinnetje
c. 1646
c. 1646
Winter landscape
1646/47
1646/47
A camp by a river
c. 1660/65
c. 1660/65
The White Horse
1646
1646