ID 1344947
Lot 155 | ADRIAEN VAN DE VELDE (AMSTERDAM 1636-1672)
Estimate value
£ 12 000 – 18 000
Cows, sheep, goats and herders resting in a pastoral landscape
indistinctly signed and dated 'A. V. Velde / 1668' (centre left, on the stone wall)
oil on canvas
22 ½ x 27 ½ in. (57.2 x 69.8 cm.)
Provenance
Johan Philip de Monté (1754-1814), Utrecht, and by inheritance to his widow,
Madame de Monté; her sale, A. Lamme, Rotterdam, 4 July 1825 (=1st day), lot 2, where acquired before the sale by,
Christianus Johannes Nieuwenhuys (1799-1883); his sale, Christie's, London, 11 May 1833 (=2nd day), lot 118 (477 gns. to Walmesley [?]).
Auguste Louis Albéric, Prince d'Arenberg (1837-1924), and probably by descent until,
Art Market, Munich, circa 1967, where acquired by the father of the present owners.
Literature
J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, V, London, 1834, p. 205, no. 104.
C.J. Nieuwenhuys, A Review of the Lives and Works of some of the most Eminent Painters, London, 1834, pp. 249-50, no. 60.
W. Burger, Galerie d'Arenberg à Bruxelles, avec le catalogue complet de la collection, 1869, pp. 45, 154-5, no. 62, as dated either '1665 or 1668'.
G. Lafenestre and E. Richtenberger, La Peinture en Europe: La Belgique, Paris, 1895, pp. 149-50, where listed in the Palais d'Arenberg, Brussels.
C. Hofstede de Groot, Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts, IV, Esslingen and Paris, 1911, pp. 533-4 and 603, no. 182.
Artist: | Adriaen van de Velde (1636 - 1672) |
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Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
Art style: | Old Masters |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, Europe, The Netherlands |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
Artist: | Adriaen van de Velde (1636 - 1672) |
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Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
Art style: | Old Masters |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, Europe, The Netherlands |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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