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Halt of Cavaliers at an Inn
Philips Wouwermanc.1642-43
Dulwich Picture Gallery
London, United Kingdom
Philips Wouwermans was the son of one artist (Pauwels), and brother to two more, Pieter and Johannes, both of whom seem to have joined their more talented brother’s studio.
The particular form of the signature – “PHW” in monogram – suggests this picture was created before 1646. After beginning his career under the influence of the Bamboccianti, whose impact can be seen both in the strong diagonal composition and the focus on anecdotal detail in the depiction of the cavaliers, Wouwerman gradually developed a more elegant, courtly style and a taste for more elevated subject matter.
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- Title: Halt of Cavaliers at an Inn
- Creator Lifespan: 1619 - 1668
- Date: c.1642-43
- Physical Dimensions: w610 x h438 cm
- Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil
- null: The monogram is of a form which seems to have been used only before 1646. F. Duparc suggests a date of c.1642/3, noting the strong influence of Van Laer (letter on file, 1997). Not, as stated by Hofstede de Groot, a pendant to DPG79.J. P. Foster (27 June 1988) refers to a copy or version formerly in a private collection in Poland (letter on file). HdG819 is an exact copy of the main group.The provenance given above is from GPI. However, according to old Dulwich catalogue (not specified), Desenfans bought the picture at Nijman sale 1797]. [Check] Mrs Jameson supposed this and her no. 126 [DPG79] were 'the same, I presume, which were sold from the collection of the Marquis de Brunoy, in 1749, for 216l.'
- Work Nationality: Dutch
- Support: Panel
- Provenance: London, Noel Desenfans, ?1795-1807: ?London, Skinner and Dyke, Desenfans sale, 27 Feb. 1795, lot 63; London, Sir Francis Bourgeois, 1807-1811; Bourgeois Bequest, 1811.
- Inscriptions: PHW', PH in monogram
- Further Information: Highly esteemed within his own lifetime and throughout the eighteenth century, Philips Wouwerman was a Dutch artist of landscapes and genre scenes based out of Haarlem. Although he never travelled to Italy himself, he was heavily influenced by artist Pieter van Laer (c.1599-c.1642) who had spent a decade in Rome where he acquired the nickname Il Bamboccio. The term Bamboccianti refers to the Dutch and Flemish artists who, in van Laer’s vein, presented traditional scenes of everyday life within Arcadian landscapes. In Wouwerman’s Halt of Cavaliers at an Inn (DPG 77) the influence of Pieter van Laer is at its clearest: in its strongly diagonal composition, its earthy colours, and its beautiful observation of the resting ‘cavaliers’ in the foreground. Even the horses reflect the more down-to-earth aesthetic of Van Laer, and the furthest right of the three is similar to Van Laer’s Landscape with Hunters, now in the Mauritshuis, dated to just after Van Laer’s return to Haarlem in 1639.
- Artist: Wouwerman, Philips
- Acquisition Method: Bourgeois, Sir Peter Francis (Bequest, 1811)
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