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Halt of Travellers
Philips Wouwermanc.1647-49
Dulwich Picture Gallery
London, United Kingdom
An early work comparable with the Landscape with a Rider resting in the Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig, of 1646. F. Duparc suggests a date of c. 1647-49, which seems likely given the signature style of 'PHILS W' (PHILS in monogram), which came into use in 1646. The use of a diagonal skyline and the coarse figures is typical of Wouwerman's output during a period when he was heavily under the influence of Pieter van Laer.
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- Title: Halt of Travellers
- Creator Lifespan: 1619 - 1668
- Date: c.1647-49
- Physical Dimensions: w710 x h745 cm
- Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil
- null: Letter from Frederik J. Duparc, Mauritshuis, dated 18 Aug. 1997 suggests 'Early, more interest in landscape. ca.1647/49' (on file).Beresford writes 'An early work comparable with the Landscape with a Rider resting in the Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig, of 1646.'
- Work Nationality: Dutch
- Support: Panel
- Provenance: London, Noel Desenfans, 1802-1807: London, Skinner and Dyke, Desenfans sale, 17 Mar. 1802, lot 124 (Descriptive Catalogue no. 114: 'A Landscape, Cattle and Figures, View from Nature [the drawing of this picture was but a few years ago, in the possession of a merchant at Amsterdam, where a friend of our's saw it ... We see in this, detached from a warm, silvery and transparent sky, a small house covered with thatch, built on an eminence, and surrounded with trees; a gentleman is near, wrapped in a cloak, and mounted on a fine horse; his servant who rides a white one, upon which is a red saddle, is dismounted, and giving him to eat, out of a basket. On this side, is a man dressed in brown and blue, with a red bonnet on his head; he appears fatigued and reposes himself extended on the ground; a little farther, to the left, a cascade is seen, and on the second ground to the right, an old willow with but few leaves, and almost despoiled of it's verdure]'. £220.10); London, Sir Francis Bourgeois, 1807-1811; Bourgeois Bequest, 1811.
- Inscriptions: Signed, bottom left: 'PHILS W' (PHILS in monogram)
- Artist: Wouwerman, Philips
- Acquisition Method: Bourgeois, Sir Peter Francis (Bequest, 1811)
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