Bull in a City Street

Date17th/18th Century

Object PlaceHolland, Netherlands, Western Europe, Europe

MediumPaint on canvas

ClassificationsPaintings

Dimensions15 7/8 × 12 3/8 inches (40.32 × 31.43 cm)

Credit LineGift of Anna Scripps Whitcomb

Object number38.31

DescriptionView of a dog and a bull in a city street. Dog lies on brick street in left foreground. Standing bull is tied to stairway railing at right. Woman leans out of window at right. A tree lined canal is in the midground. Three figures and two dogs on far bank of canal. Architectural facade in the background.

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Locations

Storage - Long-term Demo Museum (Hanover Square), East Wing, European Painting Storage, Screen 1, B

ProvenanceFormerly in the collection of: Amsterdam, Collection Widow of the artist (1712); Amsterdam, Collection Otto Willem Johan Berg, (1825); Amsterdam, auction O. W. J. Berg (de Vries . . Roos) 7 July, 1825, lot 48, sold for fl. 490 to Van den Bergh; London, Collection Jeremiah Harman, (1834-1844); London, auction J. Harman (Christie's) 17-18 May, 1844, lot , sold for pounds sterling 162-15-00; (?) London, Collection Thomas French, (1853); (?) London, auction T. French (Christie's) 12 May, 1855, lot ; New York, Collection William Tilden Blodgett, (acquired about 1870); By descent to New York, Collection Eleanor E. Blodgett;