An Army Camp

An Army Camp

SK-A-484

signature, with monogram, bottom left (letters of first name ligated): ‘PHils . W’

An army camp, by Philips Wouwerman.

painter: Philips Wouwerman (mentioned on object)

c. 1662 - c. 1664

olieverf op paneel

• depth 9.5 cm
• height 35.2 cm x width 41 cm x thickness 1.5 cm

Dupper Wzn. Bequest, Dordrecht

bequest 1870

Public domain

...; collection Jean-Baptiste Pierre Lebrun (1748-1813), Paris;{Acccording to an inscription on the third state of an engraving after the painting by G. Texier (the first state is dated 1776); V.L. Atwater, _A Catalogue and Analysis of Eighteenth-Century French Prints after Netherlandish Baroque Paintings_, IV, Ann Arbor 1989, pp. 1594-95, no. 2096. It was not possible to identify the painting with any of the works by Wouwerman described in Lebrun´s sales.}...; ? sale [Henderson et al.], London (Christie´s), 2 (3) May 1802 _sqq._, no. 101 (`Le Vivandiers, lately from the collection of Le Brun´), bought in at £34 13s;{GPI, Br-400.} sale, Henderson et al., London (Christie´s), 22 December 1806, no. 24 (`The established Picture called Les Vivandiers, a Halt of Cavalry at Tents in a Camp; a Work of the first Reputation, engraved by Vischer, by Tessier, and latterly in the Le Brun collection, by Le Bas, where it was Sold for a large Sum. [...] the Engraving by Vischer was transmitted with the Picture, and the Gallery of Le Brun will be produced to refer to´), bought in, possibly at 34 gns;{GPI, Br-446.} ? sale, John Sweetman, Esq., Dublin (J.D. Herbert), 1 December 1817 _sqq._, no. 15 (`The established Picture called Les Vevandiers. -A Halt of Cavalry at Tents.- [...] engraved by Vischer, by Tessier and by Le Bas, while in the Le Brun collection, out of which it was sold for a very large sum.[...] The engraving by Vischer goes along with the Picture´), 70 gns, to Marrable, Dublin;{GPI, Br-1599. Despite the detailed descriptions in the 1802, 1806 and 1817 sale catalogues and the references to the prints, the Getty Provenance Index states that there is `still room for doubt´ when it comes to identifying the painting in these auctions with the one in the Rijksmuseum, because there are several other dubious assertions in the Sweetman catalogue.}...; sold for 200 gns by the dealer John Smith, London;{J. Smith, _A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters_, I, London 1829, p. 336.}...; sale, John Smith (1781-1855, London), London (Christie´s), 20 February 1824 _sqq._ (`A Halt of Cavalry at a Sutler´s Booth, and Figures dancing in the half distance, exquisitely finished. This picture is engraved in the Le Brun Cabinet, and also by Visscher´), £157 10s, to Emmerson;{GPI, Br-12362.}...; from the dealer C.F. Roos, Amsterdam, fl. 8,100, to Leendert Dupper Willemsz (1799-1870), Dordrecht, 1856;{[P.L. Dubourcq], _Beschrijving der schilderijen op ´s Rijks Museum te Amsterdam met fac simile der naamteekens_, coll. cat. Amsterdam 1870, p. 252.} by whom bequeathed to the museum, with 63 other paintings, 12 April 1870{NHA, ARM, IS, inv. 30, nos. 123 (8 March 1870), 132 (25 April 1870, no. 245); NHA, ARM, Kop., inv. 39, pp. 62-63 (11 May 1870).}

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