Adriaen van de Velde (1636-1672)

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Adriaen van de Velde (1636-1672)

Peasants returning from market in a horse-drawn cart on a path, with a peasant woman meeting a shepherd with his flock beyond, cattle grazing at the edge of a wood in the dunes

signed and dated centre below A.V. Velde.f/1661, oil on panel
28.8 x 38.3 cm (including a horizontal strip of 1 cm added at the bottom)

Provenance

P. de Smeth van Alphen ( ); Sale, Van der Schley Amsterdam, 1 August 1810, lot 106 (fl 850 to J. Iver)
Jacob de Vos ( ), De Vries Amsterdam, 2 July 1833, lot 35 (fl. 665 to De Lelie for Woodburn)
C. Brind Esq., 1834 (mentioned in J. Smith, see under literature)
Mrs Louise Hortense Labouchère
by descent to her granddaughter
Mrs Henriëtte Durand-Dassier, Paris ( 1952)
thence by descent

Literature

J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné, V, 1834, p. 199, no 89
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné etc., IV, 1911, p. 499, no 65

Lot Essay

The present lot dates from the same year as the little farm in a landscape in the National Gallery, London (C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue raisonné etc., IV, 1911, no. 81; W. Stechow, Dutch Landscape Painting of the Seventeenth Century, 1966, fig. 45) and the summer panorama formerly in the J.C.H. Heldring collection, Oosterbeek (Stechow, op.cit., fig. 65). All three pictures are characterised by the same clarity in lighting and harmonious composition. The group of trees in the present lot recalls the picture of the forest glade of 1658, in the Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Galerie, Frankfurt, of which Stechow rightly remarked Paulus Potter's influence (Stechow, op.cit., fig. 159)

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