Old Masters Day Sale, including portrait miniatures from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher

Old Masters Day Sale, including portrait miniatures from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 138. Landscape with an ambush on a country road in the dunes; and Landscape with a cowherd watering his cattle.

Property from the Collection formed by the late Mr and Mrs Barge-Dreesmann

Esaias van de Velde

Landscape with an ambush on a country road in the dunes; and Landscape with a cowherd watering his cattle

Lot Closed

December 9, 02:38 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection formed by the late Mr and Mrs Barge-Dreesmann

Esaias van de Velde

Amsterdam 1587 - 1630 The Hague

Landscape with an ambush on a country road in the dunes; and Landscape with a cowherd watering his cattle



the former signed and dated lower right: E.V .VELDE. / 1625

the latter signed and dated lower left: E.V .VELDE. 1625

a pair, both oil on panel, in painted circles

the former, diameter of painted surface: 10.5 cm.; 4⅛ in.

the latter, diameter of painted surface: 11.4 cm.; 4½ in.

unframed each: 13.6 x 14 cm.; 5⅜ x 5½ in.

framed each: 21.8 x 22.2 cm.; 8⅝ x 8¾ in.


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Wilhelm Gumprecht, Berlin;
Theodor Stroefer (1843–1927), Nuremberg;
His sale, Munich, Julius Böhler, 28 October 1937, lots 109 and 110, for DM 1900;
With Kunsthandel P. de Boer, Amsterdam;
Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Christie's, 4 May 1999, lot 92;
With Dr A. Wieg Fine Art, Amsterdam;
Mr and Mrs Barge-Dreesmann, Brasschaat;
Thence by descent to the present owners.
G.S. Keyes, Esaias van den Velde 1587–1630, Doornspijk 1984, p. 134, no. 58, reproduced pl. 400, and p. 160, no. 154, reproduced pl. 401 (incorrectly as tondos set into square panels).