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Pastoral Landscape with Ruins

Adriaen van de Velde (Dutch, 1636–1672)LinkedCulture matchlcp-9ffc80d12573

Date: 1664
Medium: Oil on canvas
Culture: Holland
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Institution: Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID: 863

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With its warm southern sunlight and leisurely interactions between herders, this painting of the Italian countryside would have affirmed urban Dutch perceptions of rural areas as places of innocence and peace. The son of a painter, Adriaen van de Velde was also inspired by the cattle pieces of Paulus Potter and the Italianate pastoral scenes of Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem . He achieved a harmonious balance of elements by studying the landscape from life as well as by sketching the cattle in the pasture and the human figures in the studio.

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Credit line: Sidney A. Kent Fund
Provenance: Gerrit Braamcamp (died 1771), Amsterdam, by 1766 [see Bastide 1766 and Bille 1961]; his estate sale Van der Schley, etc., Amsterdam, July 31, 1771, no. 235 for 2,420 florins to Jan Gildemeester Jansz. along with no. 234, which was considered to be its pendant and fetched 2400 florins [prices and buyer according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague]; Jan Gildemeester Jansz. (died 1799), Amsterdam; his sale, Van der Schley, etc., Amsterdam, June 11, 1800, no. 239 for 4,825 florins to Jan Yver as agent for Pieter van Winter [price and buyer according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague; see Priem 1997 for the connection between Yver and van Winter; no. 238 in this sale, considered to be its pendant, was sold separately and is now in the Royal Collection, Windsor]; Pieter van Winter (died 1807), Amsterdam; his heirs until the division of his property in 1818, when it was assigned to the portion of his daughter Anna Louisa Agatha and her husband Willem van Loon (died 1877 and 1847 respectively) [see de Groot 1905 and Priem 1997]. Presumably Prince Anatole Demidoff, Villa San Donato, near Florence (died 1870); by descent to his nephew Prince Paul Demidoff (died 1885); offered for sale Florence, Pillet, Le Roy and Mannheim, Villa San Donato, March 15-April 10, 1880, lot 1116, engraved, bought in;by descent to Princess Demidoff (formerly Princess Lise Troubetzkoi), 1885; sold through Durand-Ruel, Paris, June 1890, as part of a group of Dutch and Flemish paintings, many from the Demidoff collection, with funds advanced by Martin A. Ryerson and other trustees of the Art Institute [annual report 1891]; the cost of 1894.1024 was reimbursed by the Sydney A. Kent Fund.