The Watering Place - Rubens Landscape Panels

Object details

TitleThe Watering Place

Technique and supportOil on panel

Dimensions99.4 x 135

Inventory numberNG4815

CollectionNational Gallery, London

Provenance

Coll. M. d’Armagnac, ‘grand Ecuier’ (? = Charles, Comte d’Armagnac (1684–1753)) by whom sold for 1650 francs;
coll. the Duc de Tallard ( = Marie-Joseph, Duc d’Hostun and de Tallard (1683–1755)) by 1753;
Duc de Tallard (†) sale, Remy & Glomy, Paris, 22 ff. March, 1756 (141) bt. by Remy for 9905 francs. Perhaps in the Peilhon (†) sale, Remy, Paris, 16 ff. May, 1763 (16), sold for 1,410 francs;
coll, the Duke of Montagu (= George Montagu, 3rd Duke of Montagu († 1790)), London, probably at least by the summer of 1768;
inherited by his daughter, Elizabeth († 1827) wife of Henry, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch († 1812);
exh. B.I. 1815 (17); B.I., 1836 (12); B.I., 1851 (61); R.A., 1872 (195); R.A., 1927 (263);
bought from the 8th Duke of Buccleuch, out of the Grant-in-Aid and the Mackerell, Scott, and Temple-West Funds, with the aid of a contribution from the National Art-Collections Fund, 1936.

CHENNEVIÈRES AND MONTAIGLON 1851-1860, p. 139

SMITH 1830, II, p. 181, no. 630

ROOSES 1890, IV, pp. 380, 381, no. 1196

DILLON 1909, pp. 184, 231, pl. CCXXXI

KIESER 1926, p. 42, n. 2

FRY 1927, p. 144

BURCHARD 1928, p. 66

BURCHARD 1932, p. 86

HERRMANN 1936, pp. 15, 34, 35, 42, 46, 53, 70, n. 35, 36, 81, n. 128

MACLAREN 1936, pp. 207-13

BORENIUS 1936, pp. 138, 139

RACZYŃSKI 1937, pp. 80, 81

CORNETTE 1939, pp. 725, 726, 739

EVERS 1942, pp. 392-6, 505, nn. 415, 416, fig. 222

GLÜCK 1940, p. 55, no. 5, pl. 5

MARTIN 1966, pp. 180 ff.

MARTIN 1968, pp. 210, 211

MARTIN 1970, pp. 205-13, no. 4185, Appendix I

ADLER 1982, pp. 95-98, no. 25, fig. 71

INGAMELLS 1982, p. 289 n. 2

BROWN, REEVE AND WYLD 1982, pp. 26 ff., pl. 3, fig. 2

BROWN 1996, pp. 12, 20, 39, 52-5, 88, 89, 95, 96, 98, 99, 101, 102, 103, 105, 106, 108, 118, figs. 46, 47, 93, 98, 101

LIEDTKE 1997, p. 54

KIRBY 1999, p. 21

BROWN 2000, pp. 269-70, 272, fig. 3

BISACCA 2017, p. 103, fig. 1

Kleinert 2017, pp. 39f, 43-5, 51, 84, 93, 126, 168, pl. 21

DAVIS 2020, pp. 38, 87, 88, fig. 2.7

GRUBER AND OBERTHALER 2020, p. 89, fig. 43

AVERY-QUASH AND DAVIS 2023, pp. 74-5

KLEINERT 2023, pp. 112, 116, 122, 123

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