A Seven-Part Decorative Sequence: An Outdoor Stairway

A Seven-Part Decorative Sequence: An Outdoor Stairway

SK-A-3942

Onderdeel van een zevendelige kamerbeschildering in vijf stukken met afbeeldingen van een interieur, twee galerijen en twee buitentrappen, bevolkt met talrijke personen. Het betreft hier de rechterhelft van de voorstelling met drie figuren op een buitentrap. (Zie voor de andere helft SK-A-3941)

painter: Dirck van Delen

1630 - 1632

oil on canvas

• height 310 cm x width 125 cm x depth 3 cm
• height 320 cm x width 135 cm x depth 13.7 cm

Purchased with the support of the Stichting tot Bevordering van de Belangen van het Rijksmuseum

purchase 1958

Public domain

…; purchased in Brussels for £ 50 by Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865) for his estate Broadlands, Romsey Hampshire;{Oswald 1938, p. 281.} presented by him to Hans Sloane-Stanley (1739-1827) for his estate Paultons Park, Hampshire, after 1805;{Oswald 1938, p. 281.}; by descent to Lavender Elizabeth Sloane-Stanley (1900-75) and her husband John Everett, with the estate Paultons Park, Hampshire; from whom, £ 8,000, through the dealer C. Marshall Spink gallery, London, to the museum as a gift of the Commissie Fotoverkoop, 1958; on loan to National Museum Paleis Het Loo, Apeldoorn, since 1982

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