Horseman and Horse at a River

Karel du Jardin (Dutch, 1622–1678)

1660

Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas

Dimensions35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)
Framed: 50.2 x 60.3 x 6.4 cm (19 3/4 x 23 3/4 x 2 1/2 in.)

Credit LineGift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art

Accession number2017.4192

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ClassificationsPaintings

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ProvenancePierre-Louis-Paul Randon de Boisset (b. 1708 - d. 1776), Paris; February 27 - March 25, 1777, posthumous Randon de Boisset sale, Rémy-Juillot, Paris, lot 148, sold for ffr. 4,400 to Vincent Donjeux (dealer) for Antoine-Jean-Baptiste Dutartre (b. 1714 - d. 1803), Paris [see note 1]; March 19, 1804, posthumous Dutartre sale, Paillet, Paris, lot 28, sold for ffr. 5,001 to Jean-Baptise-Pierre Lebrun (dealer; b. 1748 - d. 1813), Paris [see note 2]; probably consigned by Lebrun to or through William Harris (dealer), London; February 7, 1807, anonymous (probably William Harris) sale, Christie's, London, lot 50, sold for £262.10 to Charles Birch (dealer). By 1834, William Wells (b. 1768 - d. 1847), Readleaf, London [see note 3]; May 12-13, 1848, posthumous Wells sale, Christie and Manson, London, lot 114, sold for £672 to Nieuwenhuys. By 1854, Frederick Heusch (b. 1809 - d. 1870), London [see note 4]; 1856, Heusch collection sold en bloc to Baron Lionel de Rothschild (b. 1808 - d. 1879), London [see note 5]; by descent to his grandson, Anthony de Rothschild (b. 1887 - d. 1961), London [see note 6]. July 11, 1946, sold by Frank Partridge (dealer), London, to F. Kleinberger Galleries, New York (stock no. 845); December 1950, sold by Kleinberger to Walter Hugelshofer (b. 1899 - d. 1987), Zürich [see note 7]. Römer Fine Art, Zürich. 2006, sold by Noortman Master Paintings, London, to Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo, Marblehead, MA; 2017, gift of Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 14, 2017)

NOTES:
[1] Sold together with a pendant, also by Dujardin, which is now in the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (inv. no. 1720).

[2] Sold together with the pendant.

[3] John Smith, Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, vol. 5 (1834), cat. no. 24, p. 240.

[4] G. F. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, vol. 2 (1854), p. 254.

[5] Michael Hall, "Le Gout Rothschild," in British Models of Art Collecting and the American Response, ed. I. Reist (Farnham, 2014), p. 110.

[6] That the painting belonged to Anthony de Rothschild is according to Jennifer M. Kilian, The Paintings of Karel du Jardin, 1626-1678 (Amsterdam and Philadelphia, 2005), p. 166, cat. no. 61. He disposed of his art collection around 1949, giving most of it to the National Trust.

[7] Kleinberger Galleries Records, Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art, stock card 845.