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Esaias van de Velde Amsterdam 1587 - 1630 The Hague

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Description

  • Esaias van de Velde
  • wooded landscape with riders approaching a group of gypsies

  • black chalk and brown wash, within brown ink framing lines

Provenance

With C.G. Boerner, Düsseldorf.

Literature

George S. Keyes, Esaias van den Velde 1587-1630, Doornspijk 1984, p. 271, cat. no. D180, reproduced plate 242.

Catalogue Note

George Keyes dates this drawing to the late 1620s, and compares the handling of the trees in particular with two drawings from a series of the Twelve Months, dated 1629, which are now in the Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam (inv.no. A122) and in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (inv.no. PD 776-1963; see Keyes, op. cit., cat. nos. D132 and D152).