Philips Wouwerman

(1619 - Haarlem - 1668)

Soldiers and a Standard Bearer in a Landscape

Signed in monogram, lower right: PHILS (in ligature) W
Oil on canvas, 21 x 26½ ins. (53.3 x 67.3 cm)
Framed: 28 x 33½ ins. (71 x 85 cm)
CS0485 

Provenance

Johan van der Marck, Leiden (1707-1772)
His deceased sale, De Winter and Yver, Amsterdam, 25 August 1773, lot 369 (1020 Florins)
Pieter Cornelis van Leyden (1717-1788), Leiden/Amsterdam, and by descent to
his son Diederik van Leyden (1744-1810)
Sale, Paris, 15 November 1804, lot 106, where purchased by Paillet for FF4,800
Private collection, London, 1810
Colonel Hugh Baillie, London, by 1824
R. F. Heusch, London, 1954
Richard Foster, Clewer Manor, Berkshire
Sale, Christie’s, London, 3 June 1876, lot 9, where purchased by Samuels for 1250 gns
Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, 143 Piccadilly, London, by whom bequeathed to his niece
Minna Caroline von Rothschild (1857-1903), and by descent to
Mrs. Maximilian Goldschmidt-Rothschild (1843-1904), Frankfurt, and by descent to
Erich von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (1894-1987), Frankfurt
Sale, Ball & Graupe, Berlin, 29 January 1934, lot 217 (fig. 5)
Newhouse Galleries, New York
Thomas Mellon Evans, New York since 1961
Sale, Christie’s, New York, 22 May 1998, lot 53
With Johnny Van Haeften Limited, London, 1998
Private collection, United Kingdom, 2000 to the present day


Literature

Possibly J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, vol. I, London, 1829, no. 242.
G. F. Waagen, Treasure Houses of Art in Great Britain, vol. II, 1854, p. 255.
C. Blanc, Le Trésor de la Curiosité, 1857, vol. II, no. 222.
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Most Eminent Dutch Artists of the Seventeenth Century, vol. II, London, 1909, p. 522, no. 824 and pp. 525-6, no. 833 (the same painting).
Lunsingh Scheurleer, Theodoor Herman, et. al., Het Rapenburg.  Geschiedenis van een Leidse gracht, 6 vols, Leiden 1986-1992, vol. 5b, 1990, pp. 525-526 (fig. 54) and pp. 583.
B. Schumacker, Philips Wouwerman (1619-1668): The horse painter of the Golden Age, 2 vols, Doornspijk, 2006, p. 284-5, cat. no. A285, illustrated in colour on the cover, colour plate 38 & plate 266. 


Exhibited

British Institution, London, 1824, no. 113 (Ient by Colonel Baillie)
Royal Academy, London, Winter Exhibition, 1877, no. 220 (lent by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild)
Johnny Van Haeften Limited, London, Dutch and Flemish Old Master Paintings.  Catalogue Eleven, 1999, no. 30