(Haarlem 1619–1668)
A peasant resting near a farmhouse,
signed with monogram lower centre: Ph. W,
oil on panel, 36.7 x 45.5 cm, framed

Provenance:
Kathleen Disney;
sale, Sotheby’s, London, 16th July 1969, lot 8;
H. Terry Engell Gallery, London, 1970/71;
Gebr. Douwes Gallery, Amsterdam, 1971;
Abels Gallery, Cologne, 1972;
Friederike Pallamar Gallery, Vienna, 1979;
P. de Boer Gallery, Amsterdam, 1985;
Private Collection, Amsterdam;
K. J. Müllenmeister Gallery, Solingen 1987;
sale, Christie’s, New York, 18th May 1994, lot 66;
sale, Christie’s, New York (“The Property of a Private Collector”), 12th January 1996, lot 356;
sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 4th June 2015, lot 53

Exhibited:
Düsseldorf, Gallery Hans Marcus, 1987/88

Literature:
Terry-Engell Gallery Catalogue, London, 1970, no. 25, illustrated;
Terry-Engell Gallery Catalogue, London, 1971, p. 31, illustrated;
Antiekbeurs Catalogue, Prinsenhof, Delft, 1971, p. 17, as with Gebr. Douwes Gallery;
K. J. Müllenmeister, Meer und Land im Licht des 17. Jahrhunderts, vol. III: Tierdarstellungen in Werken niederländischer Künstler, Bremen 1981, pp. 62/63;
F. J. Duparc, Philips Wouwerman, 1619–1668 in: Oud Holland, 1993, vol. 107, no. 3, p. 264, reproduced fig. 7, p. 285, cat. no. 79 (as datable to circa 1640–3);
B. Schumacher, Philips Wouwerman (1619–1668): The Horse Painter of the Golden Age, Ghent, 2006, vol. I, p. 410, cat. no. B39, illustrated, vol. II, plate 554