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Sleeping Shepherds

1663

Adriaen van de Velde

(Dutch, 1636–1672)

Netherlands, 17th century

Oil on wood

Framed: 38.5 x 43.5 x 5 cm (15 3/16 x 17 1/8 x 1 15/16 in.); Unframed: 22.7 x 27.5 cm (8 15/16 x 10 13/16 in.)

Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1966.12

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not on view

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Inscription

Signed lower right: "A.v.Velde. f / 1663"

Provenance

F. W. Lippman, London (sold, July 8, 1911).

John Dexter Mcllhenny (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), sold, Parke-Bernet, New York, June 5, 1946, lot 500.

Arthur C. Tate.

Schaeffer Galleries (New York, New York), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.

Citations

Stechow, Wolfgang. "Cleveland's Golden Anniversary Acquisitions." Artnews 65, no. 5 (September 1966): 30-64. Reproduced: p. 32; Mentioned p. 43

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 121 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 162 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. Mentioned: p. 280; Reproduced: p. 281

Cornelis, Bart, and Marijn Schapelhouman. Adriaen Van De Velde: Dutch Master of Landscape. London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2016. Reproduced: p. 27, fig. 30

Exhibition history

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, 1917: "Loan Exhibition of the John D. McIlhenny Collection," cat. no. 51.

CMA, 1966: "Golden Anniversary Acqusititions," cat., Bull., LIII (Sept. 1966), p. 281 listed no. 67, repr. p. 211.

Golden Anniversary of Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10-October 16, 1966).

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