Study of a seated boy leaning on a flagon

Details

Adriaen van de Velde (Amsterdam 1636-1672)
Study of a seated boy leaning on a flagon
with inscription 'Carel Du Jardijn'
black and red chalk, watermark crowned shield with bunch of grapes and monogram CP
196 x 254 mm.

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 25 November 1991, lot 80A (to Dreesmann).
Dr Anton A.C. Dreesmann (inventory no. B-133).

Literature

W. Robinson, 'Some studies of nude models by Adriaen van de Velde', in Donum Amicorum: Essays in honour of Per Bjurström, Stockholm, 1993, pp. 53-66.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The figure appears in the foreground of Adriaen van de Velde's Italianate landscape with peasants and cattle also in the Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann Collection, lot 549 of the present sale. The attribution of the present drawing to van de Velde was confirmed by Bill Robinson in 1991. He compared the sheet to a study of a boy playing a flute, sold anonymously, P. Brandt, Amsterdam, 17-18 November 1959, lot 101.

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