Esaias van de Velde (Amsterdam 1587-1630 The Hague)

A landscape with herdsmen and their flock and travellers on a road near a house

Details

Esaias van de Velde (Amsterdam 1587-1630 The Hague)
A landscape with herdsmen and their flock and travellers on a road near a house
signed and dated 'E.V. VELDE. 1619'
pen and brown ink, brown ink framing lines
2 1/8 x 3 5/8 in. (5.3 x 9.1 cm.)

Provenance

with R.W.P. de Vries, Amsterdam, Catalogue, 1924, no. 563.
Tobias Christ, Basel.

Literature

G.S. Keyes, Esaias van de Velde 1587-1630, Doornspijk, 1984, no. D 136, pl. 88.

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Lot Essay

According to Keyes, this is likely to have been intended as a companion piece to the Skaters on a frozen river, also dated 1619 and formerly in the A. Schwarz collection in Amsterdam, which was sold at Sotheby's, New York, 23 January 2008, lot 174 (Keyes, op. cit., no. D 67).

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