Philips Wouwerman
Interior of a Stable with Horsemen and Horses
Oil on panel. 29.5 x 37 cm.
With remnants of two varnish seals on the reverse.
Like the previous lot, this painting depicts a characteristic stable interior by Wouwerman, which follows the established compositional pattern and draws the viewer's gaze from left to right, to the grey horse as the protagonist of the painting.
Provenance
C. Haldimann. - John Smith (1675-1770), London. - Mr. Yates, London. - John Smith, London. - H. G. Barnard. - Auction Sotheby's, New York, 22.1.1976, lot 117. - Private collection, California/USA. - Auction Sotheby's, New York, 30.1.1997, lot 136. - Judson Galleries, Bloomington, IL/USA. - Austrian private collection.
Literature
John Smith: Supplement to the Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, London 1842, p. 170, no. 92. - Cornelis Hofstede de Groot: Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts, vol. II, Esslingen 1908, p. 405, no. 513. - Galerie Neumann & Salzer: Das holländische Sittenbild im 17. Jahrhundert, 1930, no. 69. - Birgit Schumacher: Philips Wouwerman, The Horse Painter of the Golden Age, Doornspijk, 2006, vol. I, p. 204, no. A90; vol. II, illus. 86.
Exhibitions
Galerie Neumann & Salzer: Das holländische Sittenbild im 17. Jahrhundert. Vienna, May-June 1930 (label on the reverse).