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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 5, 2018 | Sotheby's | London | Old Masters Evening Sale | 14 | $****** - ****** | THE RIDING SCHOOL |
paintings
44.3 x 50.5 cm (17.44 x 19.88 in)
oil on canvas
signed in monogram lower left on a rock: PHiLS W
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, by 1756, and probably in 1740;
Bought from his heirs with the entire Crozat collection by Catherine the Great of Russia (1729–1796), in 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, 1985–86;
Private collection, Germany;
Whence sold ('The Property of a Gentleman'), New York, Sotheby's, 23 January 2003, lot 40, for $550,000;
Where acquired by the late husband of the present owner.
London, Richard Green Gallery, Exhibition of Old Master and Impressionist Paintings, 1986, no. 8, reproduced in colour.
J. Moyreau, Œuvres de Ph.pe Wouvermens [sic], 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, A 18, reproduced in colour, vol. II, plate 7 and in black and white plate 17.
ENGRAVED
In reverse for Jean Moyreau (1690–1762), as L'Ecuyer du Manège, in the Cabinet Crozat de Thiers, published 1756.
signed in monogram lower left on a rock: PHiLS W
oil on canvas
44.3 x 50.5 cm.; 17 1/2 x 19 7/8 in.
