About the Artwork
The Cottage
ca. 1663
Meindert Hobbema
1638-1709
Dutch
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Oil on oak panel
Unframed: 24 1/2 × 34 inches (62.2 × 86.4 cm) Framed: 33 1/2 × 42 3/4 × 3 3/4 inches (85.1 × 108.6 × 9.5 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Bequest of Alfred J. Fisher
67.115
Public Domain
Markings
Signed, lower right: Mdt Hobbema [Mdt is not clear].
Provenance
Thomas Chapel;February 12-13, 1773, auction of Chapell by (Christie's, London, England).
by 1835, collection of Dr. Ralph Fletcher (Gloucester, England);
June 9, 1838, auction of R. Fletcher by (Christie's, London, England), lot 64;
June 9, 1838, purchased by Durnford for John Pritchard (London, England);
by descent, H. Pritchard-Gordon (London, England);
May 14, 1926, auction of H. Pritchard-Gordon by (Christie's, London, England), lot 95;
May 14, 1926, purchased by W. W. Simpson [possibly Sampson].
by at least 1949, collection of Alfred J. Fisher (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1967-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Smith, J. Catalogue Raisonné of the most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, vol. 6. no. 85, supplement, no. 21.
Winter Exhibition. Exh. cat. Royal Academy. London, 1886, no. 93.
Hofstede de Groot, C. Verzeichnis der hervorrqagensten holländischen Maler des XVII Jahrhunderts, vol. 4. Paris/Esslingen, 1912, p. 428, no. 165.
Burlington Magazine, vol. 48 (May 1926): p.[?], (repr.).
Fifth Loan Exhibition of Old and Modern Masters. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, October 1927, p. 26, cat. 36 [lent by Alfred J. Fisher-entry by W. Heil].
Ninth Loan Exhibition of Dutch Genre and Landscape Painting of the Seventeenth Century. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, October 16-November 10, 1929, p. xiv, cat. 35, (repr.) [lent by Mr. & Mrs. Alfred J. Fisher--intro. by W. R. Valentiner].
Broulhiet, G. Meindert Hobbema (1638-1709). Paris, 1938, p. 388, no. 83, (repr.) p. 143.
Loan Exhibition of Dutch Landscape Painting. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, February 3-26, 1939, cat. 17, (repr.) [intro. by E. P. Richardson, unpaginated; lent by Mr. & Mrs. Alfred J. Fisher].
Masterpieces of Painting from Detroit Private Collections. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1949, no. 17 [as lent by Mr. and Mrs. Alfred J. Fisher].
Art Quarterly, vol.31 (1968): p. 207, (repr.).
Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 110-111 [entry by A. K. Wheelock, Jr.].
Keyes, G. S. "A Brief History of the European Paintings Collection at the Detroit Institute of Arts with a Focus on the Dutch School," in the catalogue for TEFAF Maastricht (2005): pp. 10-15, esp. p. 15
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Meindert Hobbema, The Cottage, ca. 1663, oil on oak panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Alfred J. Fisher, 67.115.
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