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Lot 59
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Adriaen van de Velde Amsterdam 1636 - 1672

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Description

  • Adriaen van de Velde
  • a shepherd couple and their animals resting under a tree by a pond
  • signed lower left: A.V.velde F.
  • brush and grey wash over traces of black chalk 

Provenance

H.S. Reitlinger, sale, London, Sotheby's, 23 June 1954, lot 730;
bought at that sale by Bernard Houthakker, Amsterdam;
Mr. Kindel, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Catalogue Note

The attribution was confirmed, on the basis of a photograph, by William W. Robinson.  Although no painting by van de Velde is known with exactly the same composition, the lying cow is a motif that recurs in a number of pictures dated between 1663 and 1670, in one case together with two sheep, very much as in this drawing (A Bay Horse, a Cow, a Goat and Three Sheep near a Building, 1663, London, National Gallery, inv.983).  It would therefore seem reasonable to date the drawing to around the same period of van de Velde's career, circa 1663.