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Philips Wouwerman (Haarlem 1619-1668) A Horse Fair signed with monogram 'PHiLS W' (lower left) oil on panel, unframed 21 3/8 x 18 in. (54.3 x 45.6 cm.), including an addition to the upper edge of 1.8 cm. Provenance Monsieur le chevalier Hallée, Paris, by 1737. Marc René, Marquis de Voyer de Paulmy d’Argenson (1722-1782), Paris. Etienne François de Choiseul-Stainville, duc de Choiseul (1719-1785), Château de Chanteloup, Touraine; his sale, J.F. Boileau, Paris, 6 April 1772 (=1st day), lot 57, sold with a pendant (20,000 livres to Letellier). Louis-François-de Bourbon, prince de Conti (1717-1776); his sale (†), Remy, Paris, 15 May 1777 (=38th day), lot 342, sold with a pendant (19,800 livres to Feuillet). Louis Antoine Auguste de Rohan-Chabot, prince de Léon (1733-1807), Paris; his sale, 10 December 1787, lot 30, sold with a pendant (15,101 livres to LeRouge). Anonymous sale; Maison de Bullion, Paris, 10 May 1793, lot 53 (9,060 livres to Desmarets). Joseph Duruey (1741-1794), Paris; his sale (†), Vallet, Paris, 21 June 1797 (=1st day), lot 5 (4,601 francs to Coquelaire). Josephus Augustinus Brentano (1753-1821); his sale (†), de Vries, Amsterdam, 13 May 1822, lot 372 (4,010 florins to the following), with Albertus Brondgeest (by whom inscribed on the reverse). Baron Johan Gijsbert Verstolk van Soelen (1776-1845), The Hague, from whom acquired en bloc by the following in 1846, Thomas Baring, M.P. (1799-1873), Stratton Park, Hampshire, and by inheritance to his nephew, Thomas George Baring, 2nd Baron Northbrook, later 1st Earl of Northbrook (1826-1904), and by descent to his son, Francis George Baring, 2nd Earl of Northbrook (1850-1929), and by inheritance through his cousin, Francis Arthur Baring, 4th Lord Northbrook (1882-1947).