The old oak
1662
- Artist/s name
- Meindert HOBBEMA
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 101.0 x 144.0 cm
- Accession Number
- 2252-4
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1950
- Gallery Location
- 17th Century & Flemish Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
Provenance
Collection of Jonkheer (Lord/Sir) Alberda, Castle Dijksterhuis, Pieterburen, 1829; collection of Alberda van Menkema family, Castle Dijksterhuis, Pieterburen 1834; from whom purchased by van Arnhem and Goekinga, Groningen, 1834; collection of Colonel de Bire, Brussels (collection assembled by Heris) by 1841; de Bire/Heris sale, Bonnefons, Paris, 25 March 1841, no. 1 as L’arbre renversé (bought in); private collection, France; sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 25 May 1945; with Thomas Agnew & Sons (dealer), London, by 1949; from where acquired for the Felton Bequest, 1949.
