The Riding School

• A Riding School
• The Riding School

SK-A-477

signature, with monogram, lower right (letters of first name ligated): ‘PHils W’

Wouwerman is known for his paintings of army camps, cavalry battles and hunting scenes, in which deftly painted horses always play an important role. Thanks to his eye for detail, these paintings are very lively and anecdotal. In this painting, too, emphasis lies on narrative detail: some horses are being saddled, while a woman and child just manage to avoid being kicked by one of the animals.

painter: Philips Wouwerman (mentioned on object)

c. 1658 - c. 1660

olieverf op doek

• depth 4 cm
• height 47.4 cm x width 61.8 cm

purchase 1809

Public domain

...; sale, Jacques Meyers, Rotterdam (auction house not known), 9 September 1722, no. 110 (`Een Picqeur met Paerden en verdere Beelden [¼]. h. 1 v. 6 d., br. 1 v. 10 en een half d. [47.1 x 58.8 cm]), fl. 330, to Hendrik van Heteren (1672-1749), The Hague;{K. Jonckheere, _The Auction of King William´s Paintings, 1713: Elite International Art Trade at the End of the Golden Age_, Amsterdam 2008, p. 298, no. 110. The names of the buyers of nos. 110 and 111 were mistakenly transposed in this publication; written communication Koenraad Jonckheere, 9 September 2009.} his son, Adriaan Leonard van Heteren (1724-1800), The Hague (`Een reyschool, waar in de Piqueur aan verscheiden Discipelen les geeft [...] h. 17 en een agste d., br. 23 en 5 agste d. [44.7 x 61.7 cm] D.´);{`Catalogus van Schilderyen, In´t Kabinet van den Heer Bewindhebber, Adriaan Leonard van Heteren, in ´s Hage´, in G. Hoet, _Catalogus of naamlyst van schilderyen, met derzelver pryzen zedert een langen reeks van jaaren zoo in Holland als op andere plaatzen in het openbaar verkogt: Benevens een verzameling van lysten van verscheyden nog in wezen zynde cabinetten_, II, The Hague 1752, pp. 451-62, esp. p. 461.} his third cousin and godson, Adriaan Leonard van Heteren Gevers (1794-1866), Rotterdam (`Très bon tableau, représentant un manège avec plusieurs chevaux et plusieurs figures. Toile, h 18 l 24 [46.3 x 61.7 cm]´);{_Catalogue raisonné d´une collection de tableaux appartenant à Monsieur A.L. Gevers, Page de Leurs Majestés le Roi et la Reine de Hollande_ 1808; transcr. in E.W. Moes and E. van Biema, _De Nationale Konst-Gallery en het Koninklijk Museum_, Amsterdam 1909, pp. 145-51, esp. p. 151, no. 134.} from whom, with 136 other paintings (known as `Kabinet van Heteren Gevers´), fl. 100,000, to the museum, by decree of Louis Napoleon, King of Holland, and through the mediation of his father, Dirk Cornelis Gevers (1763-1839), 8 June 1809;{T.L.J. Verroen, ```Een verstandig ryk man´´: De achttiende-eeuwse verzamelaar Adriaan Leonard van Heteren´, _Leids Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek_ 4 (1985), pp. 17-61, esp. p. 17, notes 2, 3.} on loan to the National Gallery, Washington, 1981-85; on loan to the Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, since 2005

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https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20026998