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PHILIPS WOUWERMAN (HAARLEM 1619-1668)

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    Price Realised EUR 17,640
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    Closed: 28 Nov 2022
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    PHILIPS WOUWERMAN (HAARLEM 1619-1668)

    Le repos des soldats

    Price Realised EUR 17,640
    Closed: 28 Nov 2022
    Price Realised EUR 17,640
    Closed: 28 Nov 2022
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    PHILIPS WOUWERMAN (HAARLEM 1619-1668)
    Le repos des soldats
    monogrammé 'PHS.W' (en bas, à gauche)
    huile sur panneau
    35,2 x 41,2 cm. (97⁄8 x 161⁄4 in.)
    Provenance
    Vente anonyme, Amsterdam, 10 août 1785, lot 370.
    J. F. Vinck de Wesel ; sa vente, Anvers, 16 août 1814, lot 56.
    Collection Richard Alsop, Philadelphie (selon le catalogue de vente de 1944, op. cit. infra).
    Agnew & Sons, Londres.
    Vente anonyme, Christie's, Londres, 6 mars 1914, lot 88.
    Agnew & Sons, Londres.
    Collection Fernand Houget (1858-1927), Verviers (selon F. Schumacher, op. cit. infra).
    Collection Mrs Beevor, Londres ; sa vente, Sotheby's, Londres, 21 mai 1935, lot 111.
    Collection particulière, Bedfordshire.
    Vente anonyme, Christie's, Londres, 17 mars 1944, lot 84.
    Collection particulière.
    J. Singer, Londres, 1948 (selon F. Schumacher, op. cit. infra).
    Collection particulière, Belgique.
    Literature
    J. Smith, A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French painters, Londres, 1829, I, p. 276, n°275.
    C. Hofstede de Groot, A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch painters of the seventeenth century based on the work of John Smith, New York, 1909, II, pp. 522-523, n°825b et 828.
    F. J. Duparc, 'Philips Wouwerman, 1619-1668', Oud Holland, 1993, 107, 3, p. 279, reproduit en noir et blanc p. 280, fig. 36.
    B. Schumacher, Philips Wouwerman. The Horse Painter of the Golden Age, Doornspijk, 2006, I, p. 302, n°A325, reproduit en noir et blanc, II, fig. 298.
    FURTHER DETAILS
    PHILIPS WOUWERMAN, SOLDIERS RESTING, OIL ON PANEL, MONOGRAMMED

    Philips Wouwerman (1619-1668)'s work as a painter of horses is characterised by a range of landscapes, battles and hunting scenes in which the figures' mounts play an important role. The pupil of Frans Hals (1580/1583-1666) depicts horses with great skill, whether they are at rest or in motion. In the context of the Thirty Years' War, the depiction of these animals is not insignificant: they are emblematic of the heroic feeling that inhabited the imagination of the Dutch, whose recent independence was sealed after long conflicts.

    In our painting, the soldiers take advantage of a pause to play a game of dice, either crouching or lying on their stomachs. On the right-hand side of the composition are their four mounts, whose musculature and harnessing are skillfully depicted. This work recounts the daily life of Dutch soldiers for whom war was the only way to assert their independence from the Holy Roman Empire and the Spanish monarchy. The art historian John Smith places this work in the artist's early 'Bamboccio' style of painting, named after Pieter Jacobsz. van Laer (1599-1642), whose typically modest Dutch scenes of popular life strongly influenced Wouwerman (J. Smith, op. cit., p. 276).
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