An Army Camp

An Army Camp

SK-A-484

Een legerkamp. Soldaten met paarden vermaken zich met drinken en vrouwen bij met vaandels en kransen versierde tenten.

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

painter: Philips Wouwerman (mentioned on object)

c. 1662 - c. 1664

oil on panel

• support: height 35.2 cm x width 41 cm x thickness 1.5 cm
• outer size: depth 9.5 cm (support incl. frame)

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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