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3080

Philips Wouwerman

1619 – Haarlem – 1668

Plundering soldiers. Circa 1665

Oil on oak. 52,5 x 70 cm (20 ⅝ x 27 ½ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Philips Wouwerman. Plundering soldiers. Circa 1665.

Estimate:

EUR 50,000

 

- 70,000

USD 55,800

 

- 78,100

Sold for:

31,250 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 237-246

The Rohde-Hinze Collection 1 – Old Masters, Friday, 03.07.2015

Information

Oil on oak. 52,5 x 70 cm (20 ⅝ x 27 ½ in.). Monogrammed lower left: PIHLS W / On the reverse on a label: [Wo]uwerman / in black paint: 133 / in red chalk: L6124 - G / 55, 55 / with black ink: ABrendquit [sic!] / a red seal with the head of a greek philosopher, turned to the left. Catalogue raisonné: Accompanied by a certificate by Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, ’s Gravenhage, dated April 1925, no. 2684, referring to his catalogue (in the original) / accompanied by a certificate by Wilhelm von Bode, Berlin, 3 June 1925, where described "als von außerordentlichem Reichtum u. Großer Lebendigkeit“ (in the original). Framed.

Comparable works Wouwemans: Soldiers Plundering a Village, 46 x 67 cm, Houston, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation / Soldiers Plundering a Village, 50 x 79 cm, Kulmbach, Staatsgalerie in der Plassenburg / Pillaging a Town, 58 x 81 cm, Penrhyn Castle, National Trust / The Victory of the Peasants, 59 x 78 cm, Velsen, Beekestijn.

This painting will be included in the addendum to the Wouwerman catalogue raisonne, in preparation by Birgit Schumacher, Berlin.

1846 collection of the Dutch diplomat and Minister Baron Johan Gijsbert Verstolk van Soelen (1776–1845), The Hague and Zoelen / 1846 consortium Sir Thomas Baring (1799–1873), Jones Loyd (1796–1883), later 1st Baron Overstone, and Humphrey Mildmay (1794–1853), London and East Hampshire / 1847 exanged by Baring, to Smith / 1847 Gillott / 1881 Lesser / after 1925 collection of the Lysoform manufacturer Dr. Walter Heilgendorff (1882–1945), Berlin / until 1952 his son-in-law Heinz Kuckei (1918–2010), Berlin / 1952 collection Frieda Hinze, Berlin / collection Elisabeth Rohde, Berlin.

Source, collection Rohde-Hinze: invoice, Heinz Kuckei, 18 November 1952, 2.000 DM / inventory book of incoming goods no. 1342, receipt no. 904

Auction catalogue: Nachlaß Verstolk van Soelen, John Chaplin, London, 29 June 1846, lot 91 / auction catalogue: Old Master, Grant, London, 1881, no number (283 pounds) / John Smith: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters, London 1842, vol. 9, p. 171f., no. 96 / Cornelis Hofstede de Groot: Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten Holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts, vol. 2, Esslingen and Paris 1908, Wouwermans, no. 811, p. 511f