ADRIAEN VAN DE VELDE (1636 Amsterdam 1672) Young... Lot 3049

ADRIAEN VAN DE VELDE (1636 Amsterdam 1672) Young shepherd washing his feet at the stream. 1669. Oil on wood. Signed and dated at the bottom center: A. V. Velde 1669. 31 × 42.5 cm. Expert opinion: Dr. Walther Bernt, 1977. Provenance: - Auction Hendrik Verheyden, The Hague, Collection Jacques de Roore, 4.9.1747, probably lot 224. - Collection Willem Lormier, The Hague. - Auction A. Francken, The Hague, Willem Lormier Collection, 7/4/1763, lot 311. - Auction A. Francken, The Hague, Willem van Wouw Collection, 5/29/1764, lot 7. - Unknown Auction Amsterdam, 1765. - Auction Le Boeuf collection, Paris, 8/4/1783, lot 55. - Auction Godefroy collection, Paris, 25/4/1785, lot 27. - Auction Jan van Dijk collection, Amsterdam, 14/3/1791, lot 52 (to Coclers). - Auction P. van der Schley, Amsterdam, collection Johannes Caudri, 6.9.1809, lot 74 (to Gruijter). - Auction P. van der Schley, Amsterdam, collection Wwe. Anna Maria Hogguer, née Ebeling, 18.8.1817, lot 86 (fl. 600 to Joly). - Auction B.-A. Bonnefons de Lavialle, Paris, collection Chevalier de Burtin, Brussels, 29.3.1839, lot 33 (frcs. 2395 to van den Schrieck). - Auction Collection van den Schriek de Louvain, Brussels, 8.4.1861, lot 126 (frcs. 5300 to Allard). - Art trade Haberstock, Berlin. - Kunsthandel Van Diemen & Co, The Hague (wax seal on verso). - Collection M. F. Lindenmeyer, Basel. - Auction Koller, Zurich, 21.5.1977, lot 5154. - European private collection. Literature: - Gerard Hoet: Catalogus of naamlyst van schilderyen, met derzelver pryzen zeedert een langen reeks van jaaren zoo in Holland als op andere plaatzen in het openbaar verkogt. Benevens een verzameling van lysten van verscheyden nog in wezen zynde cabinetten, vol. II, 's Gravenhage 1752, p. 445. - Willem Lormier: Catalogus van schilderyen, van den heer agent Willem Lormier, in 's Gravenhage [1754], p. 31, no. 322. - Gerard Hoet and Pieter Terwesten: Catalogus of Naamlyst van schilderyen [...], vol. III, 's Gravenhage 1770, p. 334, no. 311 and p. 357, no. 7. - Cornelis Hofstede de Groot: Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts, vol. IV, Esslingen 1911, pp. 519-520, no. 136. The painting is archived in the RKD, The Hague, as an original work by Adriaen van de Velde. This object marked with * (asterisk) is fully subject to VAT, i.e. for these objects VAT will be charged on the hammer price plus buyer's premium. Buyers who present a legally stamped export declaration will be refunded the VAT.