After Paulus Potter (Dutch, 1625-1654)
Farm Near the Hague
oil on panel
inscribed Paulus Potter and dated (lower center)
15 1/2 x 20 1/4 inches.
Provenance:
Count Alexander Stroganoff, St. Petersburg, Russia
From the Collection of Mr. E. W. Edwards, a Cincinnati businessman and patron of the arts, by 1927;
thence by descent to the present owner
Exhibited:
John Herron Art Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana, Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century, February 27-May 11, 1937 (as by Paulus Potter)
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, Masterpieces of Art: European Paintings from the New York and San Francisco World Fairs, January 15-February 9, 1941 (as by Paulus Potter)
Literature:
Collections d'estampes d'apres quelques tableaux de la galerie de Son Exc. M' le Comte A. Stroganoff, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1853, n.p. (reproduced as an engraving)
Emile Michel, Paul Potter; biographie critique, Paris, 1907, p. 68
Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, A catalogue raisonne of the works of the most eminent Dutch painters of the seventeenth century based on the work of John Smith, vol. IV, London, 1912, p. 629, no. 94
Condition
Cincinnati Art Museum accession number 14.1970.
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