The Drinkers

Creator

Follower of Adriaen Brouwer (1605-1638)

Title

The Drinkers

Description

Oil on panel
7 ¾ x 6 ¼ in. (19.6 x 15.8 cm)

Provenance

Possibly Frans Jacob Otto Boymans [Boijmans] (1767-1847), Utrecht, Netherlands (sale, Utrecht, van Ommeren and Grootveld, 31 August 1811, lot B13), transferred June 1847 to; Possibly Museum Boymans, Rotterdam. Baron de Rothschild, Paris. [Frederick Mont (Mondschein) (1894-1994), New York, sold December 1943 to]; [Newhouse Galleries, Inc., New York, and Frederick Mont (Mondschein) (1894-1994), New York, sold February 1944 to]; Arthur William Sidney Herrington (1891-1970) and Nell C. Herrington (1891-1966), Indianapolis, Indiana, by inheritance to their son; Arthur Clarke Herrington (1931-2018), Maryland, bequest 2018 to; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.[1]

[1] Refer to the curatorial/object file.

Auction Catalogues

Possibly 1811 – Ommeren and Grootveld, Utrecht, F.J.O. Boymans sale, 31 August 1811, lot B13

Exhibitions

1952 – Indianapolis, John Herron Art Museum, European Masters in Indiana Homes, 12 Oct. – 9 Nov. 1952, no. 13, The Drinkers.

1964 – Champaign, IL, Krannert Art Museum, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. A.W.S. Herrington of Indianapolis, Indiana, European and American Paintings and Graphic Art; European, American, and Oriental Decorative Arts, 27 September – 25 October 1964, no. 30.

1965 – Indianapolis, Leah Ransburg Fine Arts Center, Indiana Central College, Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. A.W.S. Herrington, 2 – 10 October 1965, no. 11, illus.

1968 – Indianapolis, IN, Art Association of Indianapolis, Herron Museum of Art, The Nell Clarke Herrington Memorial Exhibition, 7-28 April 1968, Bulletin/Catalogue, Spring 1968, pp. 26-27, illus.

1968 – Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Civic and Cultural Center, Selections from the Herrington Collection, Inaugural Exhibition of the Arts Museum, 3-19 May 1968, no. 16, illus.

References

Possibly Hofstede de Groot, C. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century Based on the Work of John Smith by C. Hofstede de Groot, with the assistance of Kurt Freise and Dr. Kurt Erasmus, translated and edited by Edward G. Hawke. London: MacMillan and Co., 1910, Vol. III, p. 648, no. 203j.

Possibly Hofstede de Groot, C., Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten Holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts; nach dem Muster von John Smith's Catalogue raisonné zusammengestellt von Dr. C. Hofstede de Groot. Esslingen: Paul Neff Verlag, 1907-28, Vol. 3, p. 677, no. 203j.

RELATED Bibliography: Regarding Frans Jacob Otto Boymans [Boijmans] (1767-1847), Utrecht, Netherlands, and his sale, van Ommeren and Grootveld, Utrecht, 31 August 1811).

Priem, Ruud. “The ‘Most Excellent Collection’ of Lucretia Johanna van Winter: The Years 1809-22, with a Catalogue of the Works Purchased.” Simiolus (1997, Vol. 25): 103-196.

Status

Under research

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