Esaias van de Velde

估價

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

招標截止

描述

Esaias van de Velde
Horses in a field before a town, probably the horse fair at Valkenburg outside the Hague
Black chalk, with brown ink framing lines on three sides (over black chalk at the bottom), a later black ink framing line at the top;
signed and dated: E.V. Velde 1628

來源

Bears the mark formerly associated with Crozat and now suggested to be Joseph Gulston (L.474);
sale, London, Christie's, 11 April 1978, lot 89, to Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. B-58);
his sale, London, Christie's, 11 April 2002, lot 651;
sale, New York, Sotheby's, 23 January 2008, lot 177

展覽

Notre Dame, Indiana, The Snite Museum of Art, Selections of XVII and XVIII Century Dutch Art from the Collection of Dr A.C.R. Dreesmann, 1982, no. 26

出版

G.S. Keyes, Esaias van den Velde 1587-1630, Doornspijk 1984, cat. no. D135, pl. 243

拍品資料及來源

George Keyes has suggested that this may be a companion-piece to a drawing of the same date and similar dimensions at Heino, Kasteel 'Het Nijenhuis', Stichting Hannema-De Stuers (Keyes, op. cit., cat. no. D107, pl. 241). Although horses frequently appear in Esaias' drawings, they are usually being ridden by soldiers or are pulling carts, and the subject of the present drawing is very unusual for the artist. Keyes has made the interesting suggestion, based both on the subject and on the background topography, that the drawing may in fact relate to the annual horse fair at Valkenburg. This was the subject of the famous 1618 painting by Adriaen van de Venne (Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum), which may well in turn have inspired Esaias' own, equally celebrated canvas, painted in 1625 and now in the Six Collection (Keyes, op. cit., cat. no. 16, pl. 129).