A rocky landscape with a waterfall and Ruth and Boaz

Details

ESAIAS VAN DE VELDE (AMSTERDAM 1587-1630 THE HAGUE)
A rocky landscape with a waterfall and Ruth and Boaz
signed and dated 'E. V. VELDE. 1625.' (lower left)
oil on panel
10 ¼ x 13 1/8 in. (26 x 33.2 cm.)

Provenance

(Possibly) Mr. W. Paviour, Nene Garden, Peterborough; Christie's, London, 11 March 1911, lot 139 (8 gns. to Nicholson).
Mr. R. Brown, Worthing; Christie's, London, 16 January 1925, lot 131, where acquired for 25 gns. by the following,
with Pieter de Boer, Amsterdam.
(Probably) Anonymous sale; Fiévez, Brussels, 20 June 1925, lot 112.
Anonymous sale; Bukowski's, Stockholm, 15-18 April 1970, lot 196, where acquired by the following,
with Anthony Speelman, London.
with John Mitchell, London, where acquired by the father of the present owner.

Literature

G. Keyes, Esaias van den Velde, 1587-1630, Doornspijk, 1984, p. 119, no. 2, plate 151.

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Lot Essay

This painting belongs to a small group of approximately fifteen landscapes by Esaias van de Velde that depict scenes from the Old and New Testaments, the earliest of which being the pendant Pilgrims to Emmaus (Summer) and Flight into Egypt (Winter) which George S. Keyes has dated to circa 1612/13 (see Keyes, op. cit., nos. 7 and 14). For another example of van de Velde's religious landscapes, see lot 83 in this sale.

A highly similar composition of rocky cliffs with a waterfall, also dated 1625 but on a slightly larger scale, is today in the Museum of Foreign Art, Riga (see Keyes, op. cit., no. 178). Both paintings testify to van de Velde's awareness of and interest in Roelandt Savery in the mid-1620s.

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