Live Auction 19551The Martin Feldstein Collection: Dutch Art in the Golden Age
ESAIAS VAN DE VELDE (AMSTERDAM 1587-1630 THE HAGUE)
Lot 11

ESAIAS VAN DE VELDE (AMSTERDAM 1587-1630 THE HAGUE)

An open landscape with brigands attacking travelers

Closed15 October 2020

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ESAIAS VAN DE VELDE (AMSTERDAM 1587-1630 THE HAGUE)
An open landscape with brigands attacking travelers
signed and dated ‘E · V · VELD[E] 1623’ (lower center)
oil on panel
12 ½ x 21 in. (32 x 53 cm.)

(Probably) Albert Grossman, Brombach; his sale, Helbing, Munich, 30 October 1902, lot 148.
R.H. Ward, London, and from whom acquired by the following
with D.A. Hoogendijk, Amsterdam, by 1932, and from whom acquired on 7 September 1932 for f 350 by
J.M.C. Hoog, Haarlem.
with S. Nystad, The Hague.
with Kurt J. Müllenmeister, Solingen, by 1972.
H.B. Mayer, Solingen.
with Kurt J. Müllenmeister, Solingen, by 1977.
Ilse Marie Helene Bscher (née Pferdmenges) (1919-1992), Cologne; (†), Sotheby’s, London, 9 December 1992, lot 19, where acquired by the present owner.

Specialist note

As early as 1616 Esaias van de Velde began to produce landscapes with battle scenes or brigands attacking travelers, though his production of such subjects appears to have increased dramatically in the 1620s. These paintings would come to influence a younger generation of artists, including the battle painter Jan Martszen de Jonge and Jan Asselijn in the following decade. The frequent appearance of these subjects in van de Velde’s work in the 1620s may have something to do with the resumption of hostilities between Spain and the United Provinces following the end of the Twelve Years’ Truce in 1621.