Esaias van de Velde (1587-1630)

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Esaias van de Velde (1587-1630)

A Horsedrawn Ferry with Passengers on a Canal in a wooded Landscape, the City of the Hague with the Grote Kerk beyond

with inscription 'E.Van de Velde/1617' on the old mount; two shades of black chalk, brown ink framing lines, watermark Basle staff in a crowned shield with letters TC(?) and three balls below
245 x 429 mm.

Provenance

A.J. van der Poest Clement; Van Stockum, The Hague, 2 July 1963, lot 60

Literature

G. Keyes, Esaias van den Velde 1587-1630, Doornspijk, 1984, no. D89, pl. 94, p. 34, pp. 241-2
C. Dumas, Haagse Stadsgezichten 1550/1800, Zwolle, 1991, p. 516, note 25

Exhibited

Nijmegen, 1965, no. 8
Leeuwarden, 1966, no. 5
Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, La Vie en Hollande au XVIIe Siècle, 1967, no. 67
Bonn/Saarbrücken/Bochum, 1968/9, no. 139
Rheydt, 1971, no. 78
Amsterdam, 1975/6, no. 125
Utrecht, 1978, no. 102
Bremen/Braunschweig/Stuttgart, 1979/80, no. 140
Fribourg/Passau/Trier/Aachen/Nuremberg, 1982/4, no. 122

Lot Essay

Keyes dates this to 1618/9, comparing the trees to those in the etching of a wooded landscape (op.cit., no. E8) and pictures of 1619, such as that in Besançon (op.cit., no.110).
As Peter Schatborn mentioned in the 1975/6 catalogue, Esaias' first dated landscape etching dates from 1614, his earliest dated drawings from 1616. The present lot could have been executed after the artist's move to The Hague in 1618, and would seem to be one of the artist's largest known drawings by Van de Velde

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