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Pieter van der Leeuw, called Pietro di Leone (active in Rome and Genoa c. 1682)
Lot 119

Pieter van der Leeuw, called Pietro di Leone (active in Rome and Genoa c. 1682)

A wooded river landscape with cattle watering and a shepherd resting, mountains beyond

Closed29 April 2014

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GBP 7,750

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Pieter van der Leeuw, called Pietro di Leone (active in Rome and Genoa c. 1682)
A wooded river landscape with cattle watering and a shepherd resting, mountains beyond
signed and dated 'P. V. de Leeuw 1679' (lower left)
oil on canvas
14.5/8 x 18.7/8 in. (37.3 x 47.8 cm.)

with Scott and Fowles, New York, 1933.
Anonymous sale [Scott and Fowles]; Christie's, London, 9 July 1937, lot 146, as 'Adrian van de Velde' (24 gns. to Spink).
with Spink Gallery, London.

Specialist note

We are grateful to Bart Cornelis for noting that the figure is closely related to that in a picture in the Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna, which is recorded as being signed and dated '1664' in the 1837 museum catalogue (inv. no. 659). A red chalk study survives for this figure - Shepherd boy washing his feet, signed or inscribed 'v Velde', 8.8 x 17.4 cm. (Vorden, Victor de Stuers collection).