Lot 120THE PROPERTY OF A FAMILY

Jan van de Velde II (1593-1641)

Closed25 November 1991

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NLG 43,700

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Jan van de Velde II (1593-1641)

A Road leading through a Village with a Swineherd resting by a Cross

with inscription 'no.5'; pen and brown ink, grey and brown wash, brown ink framing lines, watermark Strasburg lily
183 x 306 mm.

An unidentified collector's number '44', verso
A.W.M. Mensing, and thence by descent to the present owners

Specialist note

Comparable in handling to the drawing in the Kupferstichkabinett, Leipzig (J.G. van Gelder, Jan van de Velde 1593-1641, tekenaar - schilder, The Hague, 1933, no.54, fig. 57), a watercolour in the Municipal archives, Haarlem (J.G. van Gelder, op.cit., no. 50, fig. 71) and to the landscape from the Van Regteren Altena collection, sold in these Rooms, 12 Nov. 1990, lot 71 (J.G. van Gelder, op.cit., no. 15, fig. 70), now in the British Museum