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Materials:

Brush and brown wash over black chalk

Size Notes:

110 by 104 mm; 4 by 4 ? in

Edition:

Though he is unquestionably known primarily as a painter of landscapes with animals, Adriaen van de Velde had more sides to his artistic personality, and painted a small number of important religious compositions. His drawings in particular show a great variety and originality of technique, encompassing some of the grandest and most brilliant red chalk figure studies in all Dutch art, freely handled wash drawings such as this composition study, serene landscape compositions executed in black chalk and gray wash, and lively studies of cows and sheep, clearly made from life.

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