Soldiers Carousing with a Serving Woman outside a Tent

ca. 1655

Phillips Wouwerman Dutch, 1619-1668

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Dutch Golden Age, Level 3, South Wing

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Title Soldiers Carousing with a Serving Woman outside a Tent

Artwork Date ca. 1655

Artist Phillips Wouwerman

Life Dates 1619-1668

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: 16 × 13 3/4 inches (40.6 × 34.9 cm) Framed: 23 × 20 1/2 inches (58.4 × 52.1 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Museum Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, Germack Endowment Fund; funds from European Paintings Council; and gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence P. Fisher by exchange

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. 2004.10

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Signed Signed, lower right: Ps. W

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Provenance

Tronchin (Bessinge, France, near Geneva, Switzerland)

January 12-15, 1780, sold by (Lebrun, Paris, France) auction Tronchin, lot 53 [sold for 2,300 frs.]

Marquis de Montesquiou (France)

December 9, 1788, sold by (Lebrun, Paris, France) auction Marquis de Montesquiou, lot 124 [sold with a pendant for 5,000 frs]

by 1842, Baron François Delessert (Paris, France)

March 15-18, 1869, sold by (Pillet, Paris, France) auction Baron F. Delessert, lot 107 [sold for 25,500 or 26,500 frs]

De Zoete [inscribed on label on back of panel]

August 29-September 1, 1934, sold by (Fischer, Lucerne, Switzerland) auction Dodella, lot 1949

private collection (France)

April 18, 1977, sold by (Christie's, London, England) lot 18 [sold for 210,500 pounds sterling]

private collection (California)

January 26, 2001, sold by (Christie's, New York, New York) lot 51

2002-2004, Johnny Van Haeften Gallery (London, England)

2004-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Smith, J. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, 9 vols. London, 1829-1842, vol. I, 1829, p. 248, no. 164 and Supplement, London, 1842, p. 185, no. 130.

Hofstede de Groot, C. Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII Jahrhunderts. 10, vols. Esslingen and Paris, 1907-1928, vol. 2, no. 889.

Haeften, Johnny Van. Dutch and Flemish Old Master Paintings. London, 2003, cat. 39 (ill.).

Bulletin of the DIA: Annual Report 78, no. 3/4 (2004): pp. 7, 20, 24 (ill.).

Schumacher, B. Philips Wouwerman (1619-1668) The Horse Painter of the Golden Age. Doornspijk, 2006, vol. 1, pp. 286-287, cat. A288; vol. 2, color pl. 39, pl. 269.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Phillips Wouwerman, Soldiers Carousing with a Serving Woman outside a Tent, ca. 1655, oil on oak panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, Germack Endowment Fund, et al., 2004.10.