The Cottage

ca. 1663

Meindert Hobbema Dutch, 1638-1709

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Title The Cottage

Artwork Date ca. 1663

Artist Meindert Hobbema

Life Dates 1638-1709

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Dutch

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on oak panel

Dimensions Unframed: 24 1/2 × 34 inches (62.2 × 86.4 cm) Framed: 33 1/2 × 42 3/4 × 3 3/4 inches (85.1 × 108.6 × 9.5 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Bequest of Alfred J. Fisher

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 67.115

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Signed Signed, lower right: Mdt Hobbema [Mdt is not clear].

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Provenance

Thomas Chapel

February 12-13, 1773, auction of Chapell by (Christie's, London, England). by 1835, collection of Dr. Ralph Fletcher (Gloucester, England)

June 9, 1838, auction of R. Fletcher by (Christie's, London, England), lot 64

June 9, 1838, purchased by Durnford for John Pritchard (London, England)

by descent, H. Pritchard-Gordon (London, England)

May 14, 1926, auction of H. Pritchard-Gordon by (Christie's, London, England), lot 95

May 14, 1926, purchased by W. W. Simpson [possibly Sampson]. by at least 1949, collection of Alfred J. Fisher (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1967-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Smith, J. Catalogue Raisonné of the most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, vol. 6. no. 85, supplement, no. 21.

Winter Exhibition. Exh. cat. Royal Academy. London, 1886, no. 93.

Hofstede de Groot, C. Verzeichnis der hervorrqagensten holländischen Maler des XVII Jahrhunderts, vol. 4. Paris/Esslingen, 1912, p. 428, no. 165.

Burlington Magazine, vol. 48 (May 1926): p.[?], (repr.).

Fifth Loan Exhibition of Old and Modern Masters. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, October 1927, p. 26, cat. 36 [lent by Alfred J. Fisher-entry by W. Heil].

Ninth Loan Exhibition of Dutch Genre and Landscape Painting of the Seventeenth Century. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, October 16-November 10, 1929, p. xiv, cat. 35, (repr.) [lent by Mr. & Mrs. Alfred J. Fisher--intro. by W. R. Valentiner].

Broulhiet, G. Meindert Hobbema (1638-1709). Paris, 1938, p. 388, no. 83, (repr.) p. 143.

Loan Exhibition of Dutch Landscape Painting. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, February 3-26, 1939, cat. 17, (repr.) [intro. by E. P. Richardson, unpaginated; lent by Mr. & Mrs. Alfred J. Fisher].

Masterpieces of Painting from Detroit Private Collections. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1949, no. 17 [as lent by Mr. and Mrs. Alfred J. Fisher].

Art Quarterly, vol.31 (1968): p. 207, (repr.).

Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 110-111 [entry by A. K. Wheelock, Jr.].

Keyes, G. S. "A Brief History of the European Paintings Collection at the Detroit Institute of Arts with a Focus on the Dutch School," in the catalogue for TEFAF Maastricht (2005): pp. 10-15, esp. p. 15

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