Live Auction 17081Old Master and British Drawings and Watercolours Including Works from the Collection of Jean Bonna
Adriaen van de Velde (Amsterdam 1636-1672)
Lot 95

Adriaen van de Velde (Amsterdam 1636-1672)

Cattle by a fence in a water meadow

Closed2 July 2019

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GBP 193,750

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Adriaen van de Velde (Amsterdam 1636-1672)
Cattle by a fence in a water meadow
with inscription ' V: VELDE:' (on the mount)
black chalk, grey wash, watermark fleur-de-lys
8 ¼ x 12 in. (20.8 x 30.5 cm)

Sir Francis Mackenzie, 5th Bt. of Gairloch (1798-1843) and by descent to
Madam Mackenzie of Gairloch; Christie's, London, 19 March 1975, lot 82, where acquired by the present owner.

Specialist note

Most of Adriaen van de Velde’s landscape drawings were made from imagination in the artist's studio, but a small number of them, showing the Dutch countryside, are an exception to this. In these, the artist carefully rendered the tranquil landscapes with grainy and carefully applied black chalk which he worked up with grey wash to infuse the scenes with light and shadow. The present view must be one of these sheets drawn en plein air and it can be compared to drawings in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (inv. RP-T-1886-A-622), the Graphische Sammlung München (inv. 2034 Z) and the Amsterdam Museum (inv. 10349) (see M. Schapelhouman, in Adriaen van de Velde. Dutch Master of Landscape, exhib. cat., Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum and London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2016, no. 43, ill., figs. 161-162).