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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 On View |
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Provenance
Dominique Bertrand Clemens, Ghent; (his sale, Salle de la Confrerie de Saint George, Ghent, 23 September 1777 and days following, no. 49; bought in). his brother, Jacques Clemens, canon of St. Bavo's Cathedral [1713-1779], Ghent; (his sale, Maison Mortuaire, Ghent, 21 June 1779 and days following, no. 212); Neijman, Amsterdam. Johan Philip de Monté, Utrecht; his widow; (her sale, A. Lamme, Rotterdam, 4-5 July 1825, no. 1); (Lambert Jean Nieuwenhuys, Brussels).[1] Comte François-Alexandre-Charles Perregaux [1791-1837], Paris; (his estate sale, Galerie Le Brun, Paris, 8-9 December 1841, no. 26); George. Madame Autran, Marseilles, by 1867. (Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris), in 1898. M. Rodolphe Kann [d. 1905], Paris and Marseilles, by 1900; purchased 1907 with the entire Kann collection by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); 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 catalogue states that Nieuwenhuys purchased the picture for 7,100 guilders. For a discussion of the sale and 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, Dominique Bertrand
- Clemens, Jacques
- Hôtel Drouot
- Duveen Brothers, Inc.
- Kann, Rodolphe
- Maison Mortuaire
- Monté, Johan Philip de
- Neijman
- Nieuwenhuys, Lambert Jean
- Perregaux, Comtesse
- Perregaux, François-Alexandre-Charles, Comte
- Sale, Ghent
- Sale, Rotterdam
- Sedelmeyer, Charles
- Widener, Joseph E.
- Widener, Peter Arrell Brown
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