Peasants Fleeing a Burning Barn, ca. 1655

  • Egbert Lievensz van der Poel, Dutch, 1621-1664

Oil on oak panel

  • Unframed: 14 1/2 × 19 1/4 inches (36.8 × 48.9 cm)
  • 23 5/8 × 28 1/4 × 2 3/4 inches (60 × 71.8 × 7 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, gift of James E. Scripps by exchange

1993.36

On View

  • Dutch Golden Age, Level 3, South

Department

European Painting

Signed, lower left: Eg van der Poel

1809-1825, Mr. Edward Pretty at the Rugby School (Rugby, England)

Charles Buswell (Northhampton, England)

private collection (Jubblepore, India)

private collection (Netherlands)

private collection, probably Jack Kilgore (New York, New York, USA)

sold by (Jack Kilgore, Gutekunst and Co., New York, New York, USA)

1993-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Hofrichter, F. Fox. Leonard Bramer, 1596-1674, Painter of the Night. Exh. cat., Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University. Milwaukee, 1992, pp. 134-135, cat. 67. Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 162-163. Time and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art. Exh. cat., Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, et al. Poughkeepsie, 2005, pp. 199-201, cat. 45 (ill.).

Egbert Lievensz van der Poel, Peasants Fleeing a Burning Barn, ca. 1655, oil on oak panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, gift of James E. Scripps by exchange, 1993.36.