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By the Riverside

Philips Wouwerman (1619–1668)

The Wallace Collection

By the Riverside

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The scale of the figures and horses, placed before an extensive Italianate landscape, implies that this is a transitional work, painted in the 1650s between the artist’s early and middle periods. Pentimenti reveal that Wouwermans erased a goat and two cows to the right of the standing lady and two ducks behind the left-hand figure group. This created a tighter composition and focused attention upon the elegant couple at the centre of the picture, thereby adding to the mood of ambiguous gallantry (cf. Watteau).

The Wallace Collection

London

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Title

By the Riverside

Date

1650s

Medium

oil on oak panel

Measurements

H 42.2 x W 52.9 cm

Accession number

P226

Acquisition method

acquired by Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford, 1848; bequeathed to the nation by Lady Wallace, 1897

Work type

Painting

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Philips Wouwerman

1619–1668

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