Adriaen van de Velde
Wooded Landscape with Shepherds, Cattle, Sheep and Goats
Oil on canvas (relined). 32 x 40 cm.
Signed and dated lower centre: A. v. velde 1667.
Although Adriaen van den Velde, a son of the marine painter Willem van de Velde the Elder, died relatively young, he still produced a varied œuvre that included landscapes, animal pieces, genre paintings and portraits. He was also a popular figure painter who, according to Houbraken, painted the figures in works by Jan Hackaert, Jan van der Heyden and Frederik de Moucheron, among others.
Certificate
Walther Bernt, Munich, March 1978.
Provenance
Collection Antoni Bierens, Amsterdam. - Auction Amsterdam, 20.7.1747, lot 8 or 9. - Coll. Jacob Bierens, Amsterdam. - M. de Haan-Bierens, Amsterdam. - "Tableaux Anciens de l'Ecole Hollandaise délaissé par M. David Bierens", Frederik Muller & Co., Amsterdam, 15.11.1881, lot 22. - Koller, Zurich 28/29.5.1976, lot 5194. - Koller, Zurich, 25/26 May 1978, lot 5234. - South German private collection.
Literature
G. Hoet (ed.): Catalogus of naamlyst van schilderyen met derzelver pryzen [...], 'sGravenhage 1752, vol. II, p. 199, no. 8 or 9 and p. 523. - C. Hofstede de Groot: Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts, vol. 4, Esslingen a. Paris 1911, p. 516f., no. 125.
Exhibitions
Exposition Neérlandaise Tableaux Anciens, Brüssel, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1882 (remnants of an exhibition label on the stretcher).