Nicolaes Berchem

Literature

Collection catalogues
Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century, Washington; New York and Oxford, 1995, pp. 22-25
Annette de Vries, Passie voor schilderijen, Leiden, 2012, nr. 5

Provenance

Johan van Lanschot, Leiden, by 1753
by inheritance to his son-in-law, Pieter Cornelis, baron van Leyden (1717-1788, known during his lifetime as the Heer van Leyden van Vlaardingen), Leiden
by inheritance with the paintings in his collection to his son, Diederik van Leyden, (1744-1810/1811), Leiden and Amsterdam
sold, with the rest of his father's painting collection, for 100,000 florins to a consortium formed by L.B. Coclers, Alexander Joseph Paillet, and A. de Lespinasse de Langeac
sale of the van Leyden painting collection, A. Paillet and H. Delaroche, Paris, 5-8 November 1804, 1st day, nr. 8)
H. Delaroche. John Parke, Esq., London
his sale, Peter Coxe, London, 8-9 May 1812, nr. 37
John Smith, London
sold to John Webb, Esq., London
Chevalier Sébastien Érard (1752-1831), Château de la Muette, near the Bois de Boulogne, Paris
his estate sale, at his residence by Lacoste and Coutelier, 7-14 August 1832 (originally scheduled for 23 April and days following), nr. 62
purchased by Alexis-Nicolas Pérignon, Paris, for Jonkheer Johan Steengracht van Oostcapelle (1782-1846), The Hague
by inheritance to his son, Hendrik Steengracht van Oosterland (1808-1875), The Hague
by inheritance to his nephew, Hendricus Adolphus Steengracht van Duivenvoorde (1836-1912), The Hague
his estate sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 9 June 1913, nr. 4
Mr. Boyer
by inheritance from the collector’s grandfather to private collection
sale, Adar Picard Tajan, Paris, 9 April 1990, nr. 82
Robert H. and Clarice Smith, Washington
gift 1990 to NGA

External links

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Accession number 1990.62.1

Other works by Nicolaes Berchem

The infancy of Zeus
1648

Italian Landscape
c. 1655

The Musical Shepherdess
1658

Rest
1644

Italian Landscape
c. 1655/60