Meindert Hobbema
The Travelers
166[2?]101 x 145 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right: m .hobbema . f 166[2?]
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Widener Collection
Literature
Collection catalogues
Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century, Washington; New York and Oxford, 1995, pp. 113-116
Provenance
Gosen Geurt Alberda van Dyksterhuys (died 1830), Château Dyksterhuys, Province of Groningen, by 1829
R. Gockinga and P. van Arnhem, Groningen, after 1829
sale, Amsterdam, 5 July 1833, nr. 11
R. Gockinga, Groningen
Colonel Biré, Brussels
sale, Bonnefons de Lavialle, Paris, 25-26 March 1841, nr. 2
William Williams Hope (1802-1855), Rushton Hall, Northamptonshire, and Paris
sale, Christie & Manson, London, 14-16 June 1849, nr. 124
purchased by Fuller or perhaps bought in
William Williams Hope sale, Pouchet, Paris, 11 May 1858, nr. 2
William Ward, 1st earl of Dudley (1817-1885, created earl 1860), Witley Court, Worcestershire, by 1871
by inheritance to his son, William Humble Ward, 2nd earl of Dudley (1867-1932), Witley Court
sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 25 June 1892, nr. 9
with P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London
sold 1894 to Peter A.B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
inheritance from Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
gift 1942 to NGA
Other works by Meindert Hobbema
A Stormy Landscape
Landscape with Smallholding
c. 1665
c. 1665
Village near a Pool
c. 1670
c. 1670
A River Scene
1658
1658
Hut among Trees
c. 1664
c. 1664