Core Record NIRP - VADS: the online resource for visual arts

Core Record
Title	Pont de Bois sur le Torrent
Alternative Title	The Gypsy Encampment
Collection	Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
Artist	After Wouwerman, Philips (Dutch painter, 1619-1668) Attributed to Wouwerman, Philips (Dutch painter, 1619-1668)
Date Earliest	possibly about 1650
Date Latest	probably about 1700
Description	This is a fine replica, possibly by the artist, of his compositionin the Louvre, Paris. To the left of the composition, a rickety wooden footbridge is set high over a rushing brook. A couple of figures, including a girl with a parasol, look down from the footbridge to the figures below. Travellers on horseback and one with a horse-drawn cart, have crossed a track over the hillock at the centre of the composition down to the brook, two others cross the track in the opposite direction. To the centre-left, a bay horse drinks from the brook and a white horse urinates in it; a mother with her children paddle across the water.
Current Accession Number	BATVG:P:1948.21
Subject	animal (horse, dog); figure; landscape; everyday life
Measurements	60.0 x 72.7 cm cm (estimate)
Material	oil on canvas
Acquisition Details	Given by Mrs M. H. Williams 1948.
Publications	Wright, C., Old Master Paintings in Britain: An Index of Continental Old Master Paintings executed before c.1800 in Public Collections in the United Kingdom, London, 1976, p. 223; Sloman, S., Victoria Art Gallery: Concise Catalogue of Paintings and Drawings, Bath, 1991, p. 119 (as attributed to Wouverman).
Notes	Old label (19th century?) on stretcher, in manuscript: 'Wouverman'. This a fine replica, possibly autograph, of the painting by Philips Wouverman in the Louvre (Inv. 1952). Mrs Williams of Torquay made a significant donation of paintings to the Victoria Art Gallery in 1945 following the death of her husband. Other objects were given to Bristol Art Gallery.
Rights Owner	Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
Author	Dr Susan Steer