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The Apulian Shepherd
Joachim Anthoniesz. Wtewael (Dutch, 1566–1638)
about 1600–1605
Medium/Technique
Oil on copper
Dimensions
16 x 20 cm (6 5/16 x 7 7/8 in.)
Framed: 26.4 x 31.1 x 3.5 cm (10 3/8 x 12 1/4 x 1 3/8 in.)
Framed: 26.4 x 31.1 x 3.5 cm (10 3/8 x 12 1/4 x 1 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Promised gift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art
Accession NumberL-R 21.2019
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings
InscriptionsSigned lower left: J…H.M / WTE.A FEC
ProvenanceFriedrich von Amerling (b. 1803 – d. 1887), Vienna; May 3-6, 1916, von Amerling estate sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, lot 57 [see note 1]. Private collection, Switzerland [see note 2]; September 8-10, 1999, anonymous (Swiss private collector) sale, Koller, Zurich, lot 15, sold to Adam Williams Fine Art, New York [see note 3]; sold by Adam Williams Fine Art to Michel David-Weill, New York; sold by David-Weill back to Adam Williams Fine Art; 2011, sold by Adam Williams Fine Art to Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo, Marblehead, MA [see note 4].
NOTES:
[1] Sold as by Johann Rottenhammer (b. 1564 - d. 1625), on copper, measuring 16 x 20 cm.
[2] According to the 1999 Koller sale catalogue and Marc Spiegler, “Resurfaced Wtewael Sells for $1.8 Million,” Art & Auction 21, no. 24 (October 15, 1999): p. 55.
[3] Verner Åmell, London and Stockholm, and Adam Williams Fine Art showed the painting at TEFAF, Maastricht in 2000.
[4] Provenance after 1999 is according to Frederik J. Duparc, Dutch and Flemish Masterworks: From the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection (Boston, 2020), p. 139.
NOTES:
[1] Sold as by Johann Rottenhammer (b. 1564 - d. 1625), on copper, measuring 16 x 20 cm.
[2] According to the 1999 Koller sale catalogue and Marc Spiegler, “Resurfaced Wtewael Sells for $1.8 Million,” Art & Auction 21, no. 24 (October 15, 1999): p. 55.
[3] Verner Åmell, London and Stockholm, and Adam Williams Fine Art showed the painting at TEFAF, Maastricht in 2000.
[4] Provenance after 1999 is according to Frederik J. Duparc, Dutch and Flemish Masterworks: From the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection (Boston, 2020), p. 139.