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Dimensions: measurements note 23 3/4 by 29 3/4 in.; 60.3 by 75.6 cm.

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Provenance: Bicker and Wykersloot;
Their sale, Amsterdam, Philippe van der Schley, July 19, 1809, lot 25, for 40 florins to De Gruyter;
With Galerie Dimon, Montpellier, until the 1950s;
Private Collection, France.

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Literature: C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, Germany 1926, vol. 9, p. 324, cat. no. 111a;
H. Potterton, Dutch Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Paintings in The National Gallery of Ireland, Ireland 1986, pp. 38-39, under no. 544 (as a pendant to The Riding School);
J.M. Kilian, The Paintings of Karel du Jardin, Catalogue Raisonné, Philadelphia 2005, p. 226, cat. no. 159, plate 32, reproduced in color p. 318.

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Notes: This painting, and its pendant The Riding School, which is similarly signed, inscribed and dated (lot 24 in 1809 sale [see Provenance]; Hofstede de Groot cat. no. 274 and National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, cat. no. 544 [see Literature]), must have been among the very last pictures Dujardin painted. We know that he travelled to Italy with Joan Reynst in 1675 and this pair of pictures must have been painted in 1678 just before he left Rome to go to Venice, where he would die later that year.