Wolf Hunt with Traps and Arquebus
1578-1580
Artists
Dimensions
19.8 x 28.4 cm (7 13/16 x 11 3/16 in.) mount: 21 x 29.4 cm (8 1/4 x 11 9/16 in.)
Provenance
[Bernard Quaritch, London] sold; to William A. Baillie-Grohman, London and Brixlegg, Tyrol (L. 370, verso, lower right), by descent; to Mrs. William A. Baillie Grohman, sold; [Sotheby's, London, 14 May 1923, part of lot 157-159]; to Charles Francis George Richard Schwerdt, sold; [Sotheby's, London, 10 July 1929, part of lot 1305]; to Marcel Jeanson, Paris, by descent to; his heirs, sold; [Sotheby's, Monaco, 1 March 1987, lot 524, repr.] [Christie's, Amsterdam, 14 November 1994, lot 18, repr.], sold; to Vermeer Associates Limited, Brampton, Ontario, sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1997; purchase through the generosity of Melvin R. Seiden and Janine Luke and an anonymous donor in honor of Lisbet and Joseph Koerner, 1997.205. NOTE: Marcel Jeanson's collection had been in storage in Paris from the time of his death in 1942 to the auction in 1987. Please see Rita Reif's article in the New York Times, "Auctions", 13 February 1987, pg. C23.
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