Jacques
Meijers; Sale, Rotterdam, 9 September 1722, lot 100
Monsieur De Pile
[Roger de Piles?], Paris; (probably)
His deceased sale,
Ford, London, 29-30 April 1742, lot 81 (70 gns. to the Prince of Wales)
Acquired in 1742 by [Jacques?] Rigaud for 1,500
livres on behalf of the following,
Augustus III, King of Poland and Elector of
Saxony (1696-1763), Dresden
Royal Picture Gallery, Dresden, and by whom sold
to the following in 1927,
With Galerie van Diemen, Berlin, where
presumably acquired by the great-grandfather of the previous owner.
Private
collection, Europe, until 2021.
G. Hoet, Catalogus of naamlyst van schilderyen, met
derzelver pryzen…, 3 vols., The Hague, 1752, vol. I, p. 267. P. Guarienti, Manuscript Inventory of the electoral collections, Dresden, before
1753, inv. no. 1534.
J.A. Riedel and
C.F. Wenzel, Catalogue des Tableaux de la Galerie
Electorale à Dresde, Dresden, 1765, p. 46, no. 244.
J.A. Riedel and C.F. Wenzel, Verzeichnis der Gemälde in der Churfürstl. Gallerie in
Dresden, Leipzig, 1771, p. 47, no. 244.
J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of
the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters, I,London, 1829, pp. 201-202, no. 3, erroneously
said to be on canvas and with measurements as 29 x 45 ins.
F. Matthäi, Verzeichnis der Königlich
Sächsischen Gemälde-Galerie zu Dresden, Dresden, 1835, p. 239, no.
1210.
Catalogue des Tableaux de la Galerie Royale de
Dresde, Dresden, 1846, p. 188, no.
1680.
J. Hübner, Catalogue de la Galerie Royale
de Dresde, Dresden, 1856, p. 266, no. 1305; 1862, p. 311, no. 1332;
1872, p. 260, no. 1261; 1880, p. 294, no. 1437.
K. Woermann, Katalog der Königlichen
Gemäldegalerie zu Dresden, Dresden, 1887, p. 155, no. 1414; 1892, p.
154, no. 1414; 1902, p. 457, no. 1414; 1905, p. 454, no. 1414.
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch
Painters of the Seventeenth Century, II,London, 1909, p. 445, no. 619.
H. Posse and K. Woermann, Catalogue of the pictures in the Royal Gallery at Dresden,
Dresden, 1912, p. 156, no. 1414.
H. Posse, Katalog der Staatlichen
Gemäldegalerie zu Dresden, Dresden, 1920p. 153, no.
1414.
Katalog der Staatlichen Gemäldegalerie zu Dresden, Dresden, 1927, p. 152, no. 1414.
U. Thieme and F.
Becker, eds., Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von
der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, XXXVI, Leipzig, 1947, p. 266.
F. Simpson, ‘Dutch Paintings in England before
1760’, The Burlington Magazine, XCV, 1953, p. 42.
B.
Schumacher, Philips Wouwerman (1619-1668): The Horse
Painter of the Golden Age, Doornspijk, 2006, I, pp. 233-234, no.
A160; II, plate 151.
(Probably) F. Vivian, A Life of Frederick, Prince of Wales, 1707-1751: A Connoisseur of
the Arts, Lewiston, 2006, p. 296.
ENGRAVED
Jacques Philippe
Le Bas (1707-1783), LA CHASSE Á L’ITALIENNE, 1739 in the Cabinet Du Piles.
J. Rigaud (1680-1754)