Paulus Potter (artist) Dutch, 1625 - 1654 A Farrier's Shop, 1648 oil on panel overall: 48.3 x 45.7 cm (19 x 18 in.) Widener Collection 1942.9.52 |
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Provenance
(sale, Ghent, 23 September 1777, no. 49). Jacques Clemens, Ghent; (sale, Maison Mortuaire, Ghent, 21 June 1779, no. 212); Neijman, Amsterdam. Johan Philip de Monté, Utrecht; (sale, A. Lamme, Rotterdam, 4-5 July 1825, no. 1); M.L.J. Nieuwenhuys, London.[1] Count François-Alexandre-Charles Perregaux [1791-1838], Paris; by inheritance to Madame Perregaux; (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 8 December 1841, no. 26); Madame Autran, Marseilles, by 1867. (Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris). M. Rodolphe Kann [d. 1905], Paris and Marseilles; (Duveen Brothers, London and New York, 1907); sold 1909 to Peter A.B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; inheritance from Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; gift 1942 to NGA.
[1] An annotated copy of the De Monté sale states that Nieuwenhuys purchased the picture for 7,100 guilders. For a discussion of the sale and M.L.J. Nieuwenhuys' purchase of the work, see Charles J. Nieuwenhuys, A Review of the Lives and Works of Some of the Most Eminent Painters, London, 1834, 186-188.
Associated Names
- Autran, Madame
- Clemens, Jacques
- Drouot, Hôtel
- Duveen Brothers, Inc.
- Kann, Rodolphe
- Maison Mortuaire
- Monté, Johan Philip de
- Neijman
- Nieuwenhuys, M.L.J.
- Perregaux, Comtesse
- Perregaux, François-Alexandre-Charles, Comte
- Sale, Ghent
- Sale, Rotterdam
- Sedelmeyer, Charles
- Widener, Joseph E.
- Widener, Peter Arrell Brown
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