Meindert Hobbema
Hut among Trees
c. 166496.5 x 108 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left: M Hobbema
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. 120-123
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 386
Provenance
Probably Hugh Hammersley (1774-1840)
his estate sale, Alexander Rainy, London, 21 August 1841, nr. 57
with Charles J. Nieuwenhuys, Brussels and London
William Bingham Baring, 2nd baron Ashburton (1799-1864), Grange Park, Hampshire, by 1854
by inheritance to his brother, Francis Baring, 3rd baron Ashburton (1800-1868), Grange Park
by inheritance to his son, Alexander Hugh Baring, 4th baron Ashburton (1835-1889), Grange Park
by inheritance to his son, Francis Denzil Edward Baring, 5th baron Ashburton (1866-1938), Grange Park
jointly purchased 1907 by Thos. Agnew & Sons, Ltd., Arthur J. Sulley & Co., and Charles J. Wertheimer, all in London
sold 1909 by Arthur J. Sulley & Co. 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
Village near a Pool
c. 1670
c. 1670
A River Scene
1658
1658
Timber-frame houses under trees
c. 1660/70
c. 1660/70
The Cottage
c. 1663
c. 1663
The Outskirts of a Wood