Villagers Skating on a Frozen Pond, 1625

Not on View

Medium

black chalk with brown wash on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 18.9 x 14.3 cm (7 7/16 x 5 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1994.79.1

Artists / Makers

Esaias van de Velde I (artist) Dutch, 1587 - 1630

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in black chalk: E.V.VELDE.1625; by later hand, center verso in graphite: "From the Granville & Murray Coll."; by later hand, lower right verso in red pencil: 18; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: CVK

Provenance

Sir Anthony Westcombe [died 1752]; Bernard Granville; by descent to his heirs (their sale, London, Puttick & Simpson, 22 December 1857, probably part of lot 94); Charles Fairfax Murray [1849-1919]; (his sale, London, Christie's 30 January-2 February 1920, part of lot 164); purchased by Frank Sabin; Hendrikus Egbertus ten Cate [1868-1955] (Lugt 533b), Almelo; (Gallery L. de Wild, New York); J. Theodor Cremer (his sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby Mak van Waay, 17 November 1980, lot 63); purchased by Jacob A. Klaver (his sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 10 May 1994, lot 63, not sold); purchased (via Sotheby's from Klaver heirs) by NGA, October 1994.

Associated Names

Murray, Charles Fairfax
Sabin, Frank T.
Sotheby's, Amsterdam

Exhibition History

1964: Neue Lagerlist, C.G. Boerner, Düsseldorf, 1964, cat. 98.

1993: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1993, cat. 25.

2018: Water, Wind, and Waves: Marine Paintings from the Dutch Golden Age, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2018, unnumbered brochure.

Bibliography

1955: Hannema, D. Catalogue of the H.E. ten Cate Collection. Rotterdam, 1955: no. 297.

1984: Keyes, George S. Esaias van den Velde, 1587-1630. The Netherlands, 1984: no. D 88, pl. 210.