Adriaen van de Velde (Dutch, 1636–1672)

Adriaen van de Velde

Born into a prominent family of Dutch marine painters, Adriaen van de Velde was admired as a landscape painter. He specialized in atmospheric pastoral scenes that feature livestock and rustic figures drawn from life. This intimate study of a shepherdess searching for fleas exemplifies the artist’s skilled use of red chalk to capture the effects of light and shade.

Prints and Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 29-June 6, 1967).

Prints and Drawings from the Museum Collection

Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 9, 1967-January 1, 1968).

Drawings from the Museum Collection

Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 19-March 23, 1980).

Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism

Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Graphics. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-August 1, 1982).

Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Graphics

Northern European Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1982-January 9, 1983).

Northern European Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art

Netherlandish Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 10-December 31, 1989).

Netherlandish Drawings from the Permanent Collection

Stories from Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).

Stories from Storage

A horizontally oriented red chalk drawing on tan paper depicts a woman with light skin tone seated on the ground, facing left. Hunched forward, she tilts her head down to look at her open bodice. Her hair is pulled into a bun, and a full skirt drapes in many folds around her bare feet. Isolated sketches of arms and hands float in the background. Fine diagonal hatching creates shadows across her clothing and the floor.

Léon Suzor, Paris (according to departmental cataloging sheet/card). [Otto Wertheimer, Paris]

Japanese paper laid down on cream(3) laid paper, with fragments of tertiary and quaternary supports of beige(1) laid paper

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