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ADRIAEN VAN DE VELDE (AMSTERDAM 1636-1672)
A river landscape at dusk, with a horseman and other figures waiting for a ferry on a riverbank
signed and dated ‘A: v. velde / 1663’ (lower center)
oil on canvas
12 x 17 1/4 in. (30.5 x 44.7 cm.)
Provenance
Mary Darcy, Countess of Holderness (c. 1721-1801); (†) her sale, Christie's, London, 6 March 1802, lot 64, where acquired for 53 gns. by Seguier on behalf of,
Edward Coxe (d. 1815), London; (†) his sale, Mr. Squibb's Great Room, London, 24 April 1807, lot 62, where acquired for 71 gns. by the following,
with Philip Hill, London; Old Academy Room, London, private selling exhibition, 16 April-11 August 1810, lot 43, where unsold and offered at Christie’s, London, 26 January 1811, lot 37 (150 gns.).
Philip Hill, and others; Christie's, London, 3 July 1811, lot 81 (135 gns.).
Erich von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (1899-1987), Lausanne; his sale, Ball and Graupe, Berlin, 23-25 March 1931, lot 8, where erroneously said to be dated 1660 (5,200 RM).
F. Marcus, Scarsdale, NY.
[The Property of a Continental Collector]; Sotheby's, London, 8 December 1993, lot 34, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch and Flemish Painters, V, Edinburgh, 1834, p. 197, no. 83.
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, IV, London, 1912, p. 560, no. 347.
M. Frensemeier, Studien zu Adriaen van de Velde (1636-1672), Ph.D. dissertation, Bonn, 2001, p. 175, no. 153, fig. 66.
B. Cornelis, 'Reintroducing Adriaen van de Velde', Adriaen van de Velde Dutch Master of Landscape, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam, 2016, pp. 20, 22, 38, fig. 23, note 44.
Special Notice
This lot is offered without reserve.