Egbert van der Poel
A Skating Scene

CultureDutch
Titles
  • A Skating Scene
Date1656
MediumOil on panel
Dimensions14 × 19 in. (35.6 × 48.3 cm)
Credit LineSarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston
Object numberBF.1978.19
Current Location
The Audrey Jones Beck Building
217 Blaffer Galleries
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Object Type
Provenance[Late Lord Jeffrey sale, C.B. Tait and T. Nisbet, Edinburgh, May 4, 1850, lot 2]; private collection, England; [Robert Noortman Gallery, London]; purchased by the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, 1978.
Exhibition History"Genre Scenes, Portraits and Still-life: Dutch and Flemish Paintings of the 16th and 17th Centuries," El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas, September 16, 2012–January 6, 2013.

"Picturing the Landscape: Works from the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation," Ellen Noel Museum, Odessa, Texas, September–October 2003.


Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed and dated lower left: E. van der Poel. 1656

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