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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

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

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

Provenance
Schaeffer Galleries (New York, New York), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
Arthur C. Tate.
John Dexter Mcllhenny (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), sold, Parke-Bernet, New York, June 5, 1946, lot 500.
F. W. Lippman, London (sold, July 8, 1911).
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 (organizer) (September 10-October 16, 1966).

Source URL: https://cmaweb23-bbn-2.clevelandart.org/art/1966.12