The milkmaid

ATTRIBUTED TO PAULUS POTTER (ENKHUIZEN 1625-1654 AMSTERDAM)
The milkmaid
signed 'Paulũs. / Potter. f.' (lower right)
oil on panel
11¹⁄₄ x 10⁷⁄₈ in. (28.5 x 27 cm.)

(Possibly) William III, Prince of Orange, and later King of England (1650-1702), and by inheritance at The Hague, until transferred in the late-18th century to
(Probably) Nationale Kunst-Galerij, Huis ten Bosch, The Hague, until transferred in the early-19th century to
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, until sold by
Directors of the Amsterdam Museum, Amsterdam; C.S. Roos, Amsterdam, 4 August 1828, lot 105 (f 900), where acquired by
Thomas Emmerson, Stratford Place, London; his sale, Phillip’s, London, 1-2 May 1829, lot 119 (106 gns.).
Colonel Bire, Brussels (via his agent M. Heris); Bonnefons de Lavialle, Paris, 25 March 1841, lot 31 (3,600 FF).
Edwin H. Lawrence, F.S.A; Christie’s, London, 6 May 1892, lot 371 (10 gns.), where acquired by
Hubert George de Burgh-Canning, 2nd Marquess of Clanricarde (1832-1916), by whom bequeathed to his great-nephew
Henry George Charles Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood (1882-1947), and by descent at Harewood House.

J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French painters, London, 1834, V, p. 149, no. 76, as Paulus Potter.
T. van Westrheene, Paulus Potter, sa vie et ses oeuvres, The Hague, 1867, II, p. 24, as Paulus Potter.
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, London, 1912, IV, p. 632, no. 100, as Paulus Potter.
T.A. Borenius, A Catalogue of the Pictures and Drawings at Harewood House, and elsewhere in the Collection of the Earl of Harewood, Oxford, 1936, p. 91, no. 183, in the Red Room, as Paulus Potter.

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