Peasants and cattle, c. 1665-1690
canvas on panel, oil paint, 28.8 x 38 cm
- Current attribution
- Rejected attribution
- Velde, Adriaen van de ca. 1665-1690
between 1802 and 1880Velde, Adriaen van de ca. 1665-1690
between 1880 and 1998 - Date
c. 1665-1690
active
- Title
- Peasants and cattle
- Other/old title
- Landscape
- Genre
- Subject keywords
- Object
- Support/medium
- Coarse plain-weave linen canvas mounted on an oak panel with a 0.7 cm batten along the bottom. There is a very slight left-to-right warp and the panel grain is pronounced, probably as a result of overheating. The weave of the canvas has also been emphasized by the mounting treatment. The reverse of the panel is painted, which is likely to have prevented the panel from warping more. The paint film itself is in fair condition, displaying drying cracks and a little thinness and minor wear in the darker glazes of the landscape. UV examination has revealed that the work has previously been partially cleaned in the sky, figures, cows, centre and right: the river on the left, the lower portion of the composition and the trees have been left uncleaned. Some old darkened retouchings are visible as dark spots in the sky. Previous recorded treatment: 1953-5, conserved, Dr Hell (Sophia Plender).
- Shape/sizes
- 28.8 x 38 cm
- Artistic relationship
- Collection(s)
- Noel Joseph Desenfans
1802 - 1807 (at least in 1802 the picture was in Desenfans possession (see auction 1802)) - Sir Francis Bourgeois
Desenfans Bequest
1807 - 1811 - Dulwich Picture Gallery , inv./cat.nr. DPG177
Britton 1813, p. 31, no. 321 (‘Unhung / no. 52, Landscape, cattle & figures - P[anel] A. Vandervelde’; 1'9" x 1'10")
Bourgeois Bequest
from 1811
- Noel Joseph Desenfans
- Auction(s)
- Skinner & Dyke , A most capital and valuable collection of Italian, Venetian, Spanish, French, German, Flemish, Dutch and English pictures, which were purchased for his majesty the late King of Poland ... [etc.], 1802-03-16 - 1802-03-18, lot number: 76
17 March 1802 (Lugt 6380), lot 76 (Adriaen Vanderveldt), buyer unknown, £22 1s.; see also Desenfans 1802, vol. 2, p. 176–177, no. 164
- Skinner & Dyke , A most capital and valuable collection of Italian, Venetian, Spanish, French, German, Flemish, Dutch and English pictures, which were purchased for his majesty the late King of Poland ... [etc.], 1802-03-16 - 1802-03-18, lot number: 76
- Literature in RKDLibrary
- Desenfans 1802, vol. 2, p. 176–177, no. 164
- Jameson 1842, vol. 2, p. 459, no. 108
A. Vandervelde - Sparkes 1876, p. 182–183, no. 108
- Richter/Sparkes 1880, p. 173, no. 108
after Adriaen van de Velde - Richter/Sparkes 1892, p. 47, no. 177
NB: in 1892 the paintings were given the inventory numbers they still have - Richter/Sparkes 1905, p. 47
- Cook 1914, p. 112
- Cook 1926, p. 105
- Murray 1980, p. 300
after Adriaen van de Velde - Beresford 1998, p. 246
after Adriaen van de Velde? - Bergvelt/Jonker 2016, p. 32 (with wrong inventory number)
Dirck van (den) Bergen - Bergvelt/Jonker 2021
- Other literature
- R. Cockburn, Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures Bequeathed to Dulwich College by the late Sir Francis Bourgeois, 356 nos. [c. 1820 – in NAL, London, London 79A] ?Cat. 1820; There is no painting by A. van de Velde other than no. 122 in Cat. 1817, Haydon 1817, and Cat. 1820, which is DPG51 by Adriaen van de Velde. However, it is possible that no. 65 (P. Potter) in these three early catalogues is DPG177: Cat. 1817, p. 6, no. 65 (‘FIRST ROOM – East Side; A Landscape, with Cattle; Paul Potter’); Haydon 1817, p. 375, no. 65: ‘PAUL POTTER. Cattle’; Cat. 1820, p. 6, no. 65.
- ? [B. R. Haydon], ‘Art. X. Descriptive and critical catalogues of the most splendid collections of works of art in Great Britain. Catalogue of the pictures bequeathed to God’s Gift College, Dulwich, in the County of Surrey, by the late Sir Francis Bourgeois, R.A. &c. &c. as they are now arranged in the new Gallery erected for their reception; with brief remarks on some of the most interesting’, Annals of the Fine Arts for MDCCCXVI [1816], 1 (1817). There is no painting by A. van de Velde other than no. 122 in Cat. 1817, Haydon 1817, and Cat. 1820, which is DPG51 by Adriaen van de Velde. However, it is possible that no. 65 (P. Potter) in these three early catalogues is DPG177: Cat. 1817, p. 6, no. 65 (‘FIRST ROOM – East Side; A Landscape, with Cattle; Paul Potter’); Haydon 1817, p. 375, no. 65: ‘PAUL POTTER. Cattle’; Cat. 1820, p. 6, no. 65
- Denning 1858, S.P. Denning [assisted by the Rev Stephen Denning], ‘Catalogue of Pictures’ (MS, DPG archive; unfoliated; picture numbers up to no. 366), no. 108
- ?Cat. 1817 [copy in RM: 453 D 62]
R. Cockburn, Catalogue of the collection of pictures bequeathed to Dulwich College by the late Sir Francis Bourgeois, 356 nos. There is no painting by A. van de Velde other than no. 122 in Cat. 1817, Haydon 1817, and Cat. 1820, which is DPG51 by Adriaen van de Velde. However, it is possible that no. 65 (P. Potter) in these three early catalogues is DPG177: Cat. 1817, p. 6, no. 65 (‘FIRST ROOM – East Side; A Landscape, with Cattle; Paul Potter’); Haydon 1817, p. 375, no. 65: ‘PAUL POTTER. Cattle’; Cat. 1820, p. 6, no. 65. - A. Sumner, Hatchlands Park Surrey. Paintings from Dulwich Picture Gallery on loan to the National Trust, Hatchlands Park, Surrey, [leaflet; 1994; exh. Hatchlands Park, Surrey], n.p., no. 177, ‘Called “after A. van de Velde” in earlier catalogues, but the original has not been identified’.
- Cat. 1830, Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures Bequeathed to Dulwich College by the late Sir Francis Bourgeois, London n.d., 355 nos. [c. 1830 + annotations NAL, London, 79A], p. 7, no. 108 (A. Vandervelde)
- Denning 1859, S.P. Denning [assisted by the Rev Stephen Denning], ‘MS. of a new catalogue of the pictures in the Dulwich Gallery’ (MS, DPG archive; unfoliated; picture numbers up to no. 202), no. 108
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