Lot 171: ESAIAS VAN DE VELDE | A rocky landscape with a bridge over a river, figures on a path and on horseback in the foreground

oil on oak panel

28.9 by 48 cm.; 11 3/8  by 18 7/8  in.

oil on oak panel

The panel is uncradled and flat. The paint surface is stable and the varnish is even and rather discoloured. There are no major damages visible to the naked eye. Inspection under ultraviolet reveals very minor strengthenings to the three birds in the sky, but no other campaigns. In overall very good condition. Offered in a plain stained wooden frame.
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The Hague, Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, Hollandse Tekeningen rond 1600, 20 July – 11 August 1952, no. 99;
Dordrecht, Dordrechts Museum, Nederlandse landschappen uit de zeventiende eeuw, 6 July – 2 September 1963, no. 127, when lent from the present collection;
Bolsward, Stadhuis, Wurd en byld: Gysbert Japicx 1603–1666 en de kunst van zijn tijd, 27 June – 4 September 1966, cat. no. 61, reproduced fig. 9;
Gouda, Stedelijk Museum het Catharina Gasthuis, Stad en land in de Nederlandse schilder – en prentkunst van de zeventiende eeuw, 17 December 1966 – 5 February 1967, no. 19;
Amsterdam, Amsterdams Historisch Museum, 17e-eeuwse schilderijen uit de Verzameling Willem Russell, 20 June – 13 September 1970, no. 91.
Amsterdam, Gallery Gebr. Douwes, Esaias van de Velde. Schilder: 1590/91–1630. Jan van Goyen. Tekenaar: 1596-1656, 12 March – 12 April 1981, p. 6, reproduced.

Nederlandse landschappen uit de zeventiende eeuw, exhibition catalogue, Dordrecht 1963, p. 36, cat. no. 127, reproduced fig. 48;
S. Levie, in 17e-eeuwse schilderijen uit de Verzameling Willem Russell, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam 1970, p. 119, cat. no. 91, reproduced;
G.S. Keyes, Esaias van den Velde 1587-1630, Doornspijk 1984, p. 163, cat. no. 165, reproduced plate 155.

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 25 April 1952, lot 126 for £190, to Dennis Vanderkar, London;
With A. Nijstad Hzn., The Hague, 1952;
W.C. Smidt van Gelder, Aerdenhout;
By whom sold, Amsterdam, Frederik Muller & Cie., 25 November 1958, lot 29;
In the present family collection by 1963.