Esaias van den Velde

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Esaias van den Velde

1587-1630

Landscape with a Goatherd

Pen and two shades of brown ink, gray-brown wash and a touch of gray (right corner), over faint traces of graphite, on paper.

6 1/4 x 7 5/8 inches (160 x 194 mm)

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

I, 117a

Notes:

Watermark: none.
The drawing may have been intended as a pendant to I, 117, dated 1616, due to the somewhat similar style, technique and format of the two sheets.

Inscription:

Signed by the artist at lower left, in brown ink, "E.VV (in ligature)ELDE". Inscribed on the verso at lower right, in an old hand, in graphite, "4 - 6".

Provenance:

Possibly W.H. Barnard, Esq.; possibly his sale, London, Sotheby's, 7-8 April 1893, one of six in lot 52: "E. van de Velde. Sketches of landscapes in black chalk, pen and ink, etc. (6)" (to Fairfax Murray); Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.

Associated names:

Barnard, W. H., former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.

Bibliography:

Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 117a.
Stampfle, Felice. Rubens and Rembrandt in Their Century : Flemish and Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century from The Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1979, under no. 50, repr.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 306.

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