Philips Wouwerman (1619-1668)
Engraved
In reverse for Jean Moyreau (1690–1762), as L’Ecuyer du Manège, in the Cabinet Crozat de Thiers, published 1756
Engraved
In reverse for Jean Moyreau (1690–1762), as L’Ecuyer du Manège, in the Cabinet Crozat de Thiers, published 1756
Provenance
Possibly with an art dealer in Antwerp around 1700
Pierre Crozat (1665–1740), Paris, by inheritance to his nephew
Louis-Antoine Crozat, Baron de Thiers (1699-1770), Paris, probably in 1740 but by 1756, by descent, sold together with the entire Crozat collection to
Catherine the Great of Russia (1729–1796), 1772
At Tsarskoe-Selo, near Saint Petersburg, hanging in the Dairy House, 1842
At the Hermitage Palace, Saint Petersburg, inv.no. 996, 1901–1928
Sold anonymously, presumably on behalf of the government of the USSR, Berlin, Ball & Graupe, 28 June 1932, lot 42
Private collection, Europe
With Richard Green, London, 1985–1986
Private collection, Germany
Their sale, New York, Sotheby’s, 23 January 2003, lot 40, for $550,000
Private Collection
With Adam Williams Fine Art, New York
Exhibitions
London, Richard Green Gallery, Exhibition of Old Master and Impressionist Paintings, 1986, no. 8, ill.
Literature
J. Moyreau, Œuvres de Ph.pe Wouvermens, hollandois: gravées d'après ses meilleurs tableaux qui sont dans les plus beaux cabinets de Paris et ailleurs, Paris 1737–62 (1756), pl. 82
J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné…, vol. I, London 1829, p. 303, no. 359
J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné…, Supplement, vol. IX, London 1842, p. 159, no. 61 (as “Showing-off Horses... excellent picture... Worth 450 gs.”)
Hermitage Palace, Catalogue, Saint Petersburg 1901, no. 996
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. II, London 1909, p. 271, no. 55
B. Schumacher, Studien zu Werk und Wirkung Philips Wouwermans, diss., Munich 1989, pp. 104, 287, no. 148
B. Schumacher, Pferde, Meisterwerke des Pferde- und Reiterbildes, Stuttgart 1994, reproduced in colour on pp. 146 and 141 (detail)
B. Schumacher, Philips Wouwerman (1619–1668). The Horse Painter of the Golden Age, 2 Vols., Doornspijk 2006, vol. I, p. 176, A18, reproduced in color, vol. II, plates 7 & 17