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Pastoral Scene with a Shepherdess Milking a Goat

Nicolaes Berchem · c. 1665–c. 1670

Provenance

Ownership history

E. Arents, Brussels, by 1795; sold on August 12, 1795, to Gerard van der Pot of Groeneveld, for 336 guilders [according to Hofstede de Groot 1926]; Gerard van der Pot of Groeneveld, Rotterdam (died 1807); his estate sale, Gebroeders Van Ryp, Rotterdam, June 6, 1808, lot 13, to Nortwijck, for 1,160 florins [according to annotated copy of sale catalogue in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague; copy in curatorial file]. Charles Brind, London, by 1834 [according to Smith 1834, no. 286]; sold his estate sale, Christie’s, London, May 10 -12, 1849, lot 52, to Norton, for 91 guineas [according to annotated copy of the sale catalogue at the R.K.D, The Hague; copy in curatorial file]. George Field, Ashurst Park, Kent, by 1856 until at least 1875 [exhibited with his collection at Marlborough House, 1856, according to Waagen 1857]. Sold Sotheby’s, London, June 21, 1961, lot 205, to Terry Engell, for £500 [buyer and price in marked copy of sale catalogue in Ryerson Library; copy in curatorial file]. Gooden and Fox, Ltd., London, 1961; sold to Christian B. Peper, Saint Louis (died 2011); consigned by his estate to Christie’s, New York; sold Christie’s, New York, January 25, 2012, lot no. 46, to Scott Canel in consultation with two other members of the Old Masters Society; given to the Art Institute, 2012.

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Exhibitions

London, British Institution, Exhibition of Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, French and English Masters, June 1840, no. 39.
London, British Institution, Exhibition of Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, French and English Masters, June 1848, no. 162.
Saint Louis, Saint Louis Art Museum, A Gentleman Collects, October 25, 2002-January 5, 2003, no cat. no.

Literature

John Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, vol. 5 (London: Smith and Son, 1834), pp. 48, 91, nos. 140 and 286.
Gustav Waagen, Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain: Being an Account of more than forty Collections of Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, MSS, &c, &c. Forming a Supplement to Treasures of Art in Great Britain (London: J. Murray, 1857), p. 194.
Cornelis 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, vol. 9 (Esslingen: Neff; Paris: Kleinberger 1926), p. 116, no. 223.

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