The Poacher
Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (1803 - 1860), c. 1857-1858
oil on canvas, 85 cm x 116 cm
Credits: The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
- Object number
- hwm0108
- Dimensions
- 85 cm x 116 cm, 131 cm x 162 cm, 9 cm
- Provenance
- Auction Paris, Hôtel Drouot (Tableaux, Dessins, Esquisses et Croquis de M. Decamps), lot 26 (Le Braconnier), purchased by Broët for FRF 7000, 29-30 April 1861; auction Amsterdam, De Brakke Grond (Collection de feu M. Jacob de Vos Jbzn), lot 35 (Le braconnier), purchased by Goupil & Cie, The Hague for NLG 2225, 22-23 May 1883; sold by Goupil & Cie (no. 16652, Braconnier) to Hendrik Willem Mesdag, The Hague for NLG 3500, 30 May 1883; Collection Museum Mesdag donated by Hendrik Willem Mesdag and Sientje Mesdag-van Houten to the State of the Netherlands, 14 May 1903; Rijksmuseum H.W. Mesdag, The Hague, from 1 August 1903; in trust of the Mauritshuis, The Hague, between 1934 and 1990; in trust of the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam, from 1 April 1990; Museum Mesdag, in trust of the Van Gogh Museum Foundation, Amsterdam, from 1 July 1994, under the name of De Mesdag Collectie from 2011.
- artist
- Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps
- Credits
- The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
Bodt, Saskia de, Leeman, Fred, Leeuw, Ronald de, Pennock, Hanna, Museum Mesdag : catalogue of paintings and drawings, Zwolle, 1996, p. 175
Vergeest, Aukje, The French collection : nineteenth-century French paintings in Dutch public collections, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 136