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A Hawking Party Setting off from a Country House

National Gallery of Art · Drawing

A Hawking Party Setting off from a Country House

Barend Gael

Date
1660s
Medium
black chalk and gray wash on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 18.7 × 29.3 cm (7 3/8 × 11 9/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Accession number
2020.75.1
Credit line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Time span
1651 to 1700
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record
Provenance

(sale, Sotheby's New York, 28 January 2009, no. 131); Private collection; (sale, Sotheby's New York, 20 January 2020, no. 92); (via Stephen Ongpin); purchased 2020 by NGA.

Inscription

lower left by later hand in gray ink: Prof de Belder. Ph Wouwermans / Dr Horst Gerson Ph. Wouwermans / Ph Wouwermans. / 1961. lower right verso by later hand in graphite: L2510 / 3

NGA object ID 222047. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.