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Wooded Landscape with Cottage and Horseman
Meindert Hobbema · 1663
Provenance
Ownership history
- Thomas Emmerson, London, 1835 [according to Smith 1835]. Possibly David McIntosh sale, London, Christie’s, 16 May, 1857, to Nieuwenhuis [according to manuscript note in Smith’s copy of the Catalogue Raisonné, see Hofstede de Groot 1912]. Adrian Hope, sold Christie’s, London, June 30, 1894, no. 30, for £3,150 to Charles Wertheimer. Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris, by 1895. F. Kleinberger, New York, 1911-1912. Mrs. W. W. Kimball, Chicago, by 1920, when lent to the Art Institute, died 1921; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1922.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Paris, Jeu de Paume, Grands & petits maîtres hollandais, 1911, no. 71.
Literature
Published references
- John Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, vol. 6, London, 1835, p. 149, no. 99.
- Charles Sedelmeyer Galleries, Illustrated Catalogue of the Second Hundred of Paintings by Old Masters of the Dutch, Flemish, Italian, French and English Schools Belonging to the Sedelmeyer Gallery, Paris, 1895, no. 17, ill.
- Kleinberger Galleries, A Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of 150 Paintings by Old Masters of the Dutch, Flemish, German, Italian, Spanish and French Schools from the Kleinberger Galleries, Paris and New York, 1911, p. 46, no. 33, pl. 33.
- C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century based on the Work of John Smith, vol. 4, London, 1912, no. 131.
- “Notes. The Kimball Collection,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, 14 (1920), p. 77.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings, Part II. Paintings and Drawings, Chicago, 1920, p. 59, no. 757.
- Marguerite B. Williams, “Valuable Collection of Paintings Added to Chicago’s Art Treasures,” America Today–Fort Dearborn Magazine (1924), p. 26.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, Chicago, 1925, p. 140, no. 757.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, Chicago, 1932, p. 157, no. 22.4460
- Georges Broulhiet, Meindert Hobbema, Paris, 1938, pp. 51, 68-70, 432, no. 415, figs. 415, 532.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago. A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, Chicago, 1961, p. 216.
- Peter C. Sutton, A Guide to Dutch Art in America, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1986, p. 69.
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