The Riding School

Artist Adriaen van de Velde Dutch, 1636–1672

Datecirca 1658

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions14 1/2 x 15 3/16 in. (36.8 x 38.6 cm)
Frame: 20 3/8 x 21 x 2 3/4 in. (51.8 x 53.3 x 7 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number52.9.60

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ProvenanceCreated Amsterdam, ca. 1658. Gerard Bicker van Zwieten (1632–1718), The Hague; [his sale, The Hague, April 12, 1741, no. 126, as Philips Wouwermans (sic)]; De Waart. J. G Cramer, Amsterdam; [his sale, Cok, Amsterdam, November 13, 1769, no. 94, as Adriaen van de Velde]. Charles-Louis de Beauchamp, Comte de Merle (1723–1793); [his sale, Alexandre-Joseph Paillet, Paris, March 1, 1784, no. 72bis, as Adrien van Denvelde]; [Alexandre-Joseph Paillet (1743-1814), Paris] [1]. Lord Charles Townshend (1785–1853), London, 1834; [his sale, Christie & Manson, London, April 11, 1835, no. 31]; sold to Scott or McPherson [2]. Richard Sanderson, MP for Colchester (1784-1857), Belgrave Square, London, by 1848; [his sale, Christie & Manson, London, June 17, 1848]; sold to Evans for Charles Scarisbrick (1801-1860), Scarisbrick Hall, Lancashire, England [3]; [his sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, May 10-25, 1861]; sold to Pearce. Colonel Walter Childe Alers Hankey (1839–1921), Beaulieu House, Hastings, Sussex, England; [Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris, by 1899]. S. de Jonge, Paris, 1910. [Hȏtel Drouot, Paris, December 5, 1947, no. 40]. [Newhouse Galleries, New York]; sold to NCMA, 1952.

[1] According to the annotated version of the catalogue in the Frick Art Reference Library, the work was bought by Paillet himself.
[2] Information logged in the Getty Provenance Index entry. No specific catalogue holding cited.
[3] Documentary evidence from another 1848 sale (Getty Provenance Index) notes that Evans was buying old master paintings for Scarisbrick.

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