ID 990566
Lot 19 | ADRIAEN VAN DE VELDE (AMSTERDAM 1636-1672)
Estimate value
£ 40 000 – 60 000
A woman feeding her child, with a boy and dog playing, surrounded by cows and sheep in a landscape
signed and dated 'A. v. Velde / 1672' (lower left)
oil on canvas
15 7/8 x 18 in. (40.2 x 45.6 cm.)
Provenance
M. Servad; sale, Amsterdam, 25 June 1778, lot 108 (1,600 fl. to Fouquet).
Antoine Poullain (d. 1780), Receveur général des Domaines du Roi; his sale (†), Hôtel de Bullion, Paris, 20 March 1780 (=5th day), lot 81 (4,510 FF to Houdry).
Louis Antoine Auguste, Duc de Rohan-Chabot (1733-1807); sale, Paris, 12 December 1787 (=2nd day), lot 35 (2,951 FF).
Jean-François Coupry Dupré, Greffier en chef du Parlement; sale, Paris, 21 February 1811, lot 36 (3,302 FF).
Le Chevalier Sébastien Erard (1752-1831), Château de la Muette, Passy; sale (†), Paris, 7-14 August 1832, lot 157, where unsold and reoffered at Christie's, London, 22 June 1833, lot 33 (280 gns. to Swabey on behalf of the following),
Henry Bevan, by 1834.
Sir Edward J. Dean Paul, Bt., Cambridge House, Twickenham and 7 St. George's Place, London (d. 1895); his sale (†), Christie's, London, 27 June 1896, lot 121 (760 gns. to Hope).
Charles Tyson Yerkes (1837-1905); his sale (†), American Art Association, New York, 8 April 1910 (=3rd day), lot 168.
with F. Kleinberger, by 1911, from whom acquired on 21 February 1924 by the following,
Marczell von Nemes (1866-1930), Budapest.
M. Bachofen, Basel, by 1928.
Anonymous Sale; Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 2-5 March 1949, lot 363.
John H. McFadden Jr; (†), Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 11 January 1956, lot 35 ($2,600).
Dr Hans Wetzlar (d. 1977); (†), Sotheby Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 9 June 1977, lot 129 (fl. 110,000).
Anonymous sale [The Property of a Private Collector]; Christie's, New York, 18 May 1994, lot 26, when acquired by the present owner.
Literature
J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French painters, London, 1834, V, p. 186, no. 39, incorrectly dated '1662'.
C. Blanc, Le trésor de la curiosité tiré des catalogues de vente, Paris, 1857-8, II, pp. 12, 13 and 396.
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, London, 1912, IV, p. 500, no. 143, incorrectly dated '1662'.
M. Frensemeier, Studien zu Adriaen van de Velde, Aachen, 2001, p. 170, no. 127, fig. 132.
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