Live Auction 2820Old Master and 19th Century Art
Philips Wouwerman (Haarlem 1619-1668)
Lot 57 Property of a European Princely House

Philips Wouwerman (Haarlem 1619-1668)

A peasant attending a horse in a dune landscape

Closed6 May 2009

Price Realised

EUR 43,000

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Philips Wouwerman (Haarlem 1619-1668)
A peasant attending a horse in a dune landscape
signed with initials 'Ph.W.' (lower right)
oil on panel
18.5 x 26.5 cm.
a collector's wax seal on the reverse

Dr. Otto Hirschmann, Amsterdam, 1937-8.
with D. Katz, The Hague.
The Rt. Hon. Lord Cranworth.
Sir G. MacDonald.
with Eugene Slatter, London, 1955.
with H. Cramer, The Hague, 1959.
sold on 13 September 1959 (Dfl. 12,000) at an unknown auction.

Specialist note

We are grateful to Dr. Birgit Schumacher for confirming the attribution on the basis of photographs (verbal communication, 8 January 2009). She dates the painting to the beginning of the 1650s.