Landscape with Herdsmen and Cattle

Adriaen van de Velde (Dutch, 1636–1672)

Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas

Dimensions38.1 × 41.3 cm (15 × 16 1/4 in.)

Credit LinePromised gift of Susan and Matthew Weatherbie, in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art

Accession numberL-R 75.2021

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ClassificationsPaintings

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ProvenanceNikolai Kushelev-Bezborodko (b. 1834 - d. 1862), Saint Petersburg; 1862, incorporated into the Kushelev-Bezborodko Gallery, Saint Petersburg [see note 1]; 1922, transferred to the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (inv. no. ГЗ-3442); 1932, deaccessioned by the Hermitage Museum and transferred to the Antikvariat All-Union Association for sale [see note 2]. 1984, Ronald Carl Alter (b. 1929 - d. 1985), New York; March 22, 1984, sale (consigned anonymously by Alter), Sotheby's, New York, lot 49, probably to Johnny van Haeften (dealer), London. January 15, 1987, anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, lot 41 [see note 3], sold to Otto Naumann, Ltd., New York, for Susan and Matthew Weatherbie, Boston.

NOTES:
[1] See A. Somov, Katalog Galerei Grafa N.A. Kusheleva-Bezborodko (Saint Petersburg, 1886), cat. no. 12 and Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, trans. and ed. Edward G. Hawke, vol. 4 (London, 1912), p. 522, cat. no. 229.

[2] Many thanks to Aleksandra Koltcova of the State Hermitage Museum for providing this information. In 1922, 317 paintings from the Kushelev-Bezborodko Gallery were transferred to the Hermitage, and most were later sold.

[3] As dated 166[?].