View of a village

Details

Jan van de Velde II (Rotterdam c.1593-1641 Enkhuizen)
View of a village
pen and brown ink, watercolour, part of brown ink framing line at top edge
140 x 404 mm.

Provenance

François Desmarais, as part of an album dated 1729. Anonymous sale (with associated collector's mark, not in Lugt); Paris, 2 March 1984, lot 160. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 12 November 1996, lot 29 (to Dreesmann).
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. B-152).

Engraved

By the artist in the same direction (Hollstein XXXIII, no. 188, illustrated II, XXXIV, p. 100).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

A study for the eleventh in a series of eighteen landscape etchings of landscapes and ruins, published by Claes Jansz. Visscher in Amsterdam in 1615 under the collective title Amoenissimae aliquot Reginunculae, et antiquorum momentorum [sic] ruinae (Hollstein XXXIII, nos. 178-195). While the majority of van de Velde's studies for his landscape prints are in reverse, a number, including the other three from the Desmarais album as well as studies for Hollstein 223, 226, 230, 236, 265, and 284, are in the same direction.
The prints were executed in 1615, the same year that van de Velde entered the Haarlem artists's guild.

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