Tree Fallen Over a Path with Two Men Conversing, 1626

  • Esaias van de Velde, Dutch, 1587-1630

Graphite and black crayon on off-white laid paper with a pen-and-brown ink border

  • Sheet: 7 1/2 × 8 3/4 inches (19.1 × 22.2 cm)

Gift of Dr. and Mrs. George Kamperman

46.175

Signed and dated, in black chalk, lower center: E. V. VELDE. 1626 [faded, barely legible, and partially cut off]

Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower left: E v. d. Velde Inscribed, verso, center left: a [with small raised u, underlined] Inscribed, verso, lower left corner: 00010

April 5, 1906, M. H. M. Montauban van Swyndregt du cercle "Pictura" of Groningen, dealer, R. W. P. de Vries (Amsterdam, Netherlands) sale, lot 209

December 14, 1911, M. O. Brenner of Berlin and Others, dealer: R. W. P. de Vries (Amsterdam, Netherlands) auction, lot 1500, sold to R. W. P. de Vries.

December 2, 1913, V. van Gogh and Others, dealer, R. W. P de Vries (Amsterdam, Netherlands) sale, lot 809, possibly sold to de vries again

1924, catalouge, Gallery R. W. P. de Vries (Amsterdam, Netherlands). 1946-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Bulletin of the DIA (1947): p. 45. Keyes, George S. Esaias van den Velde. 1587-1630. Vol. 4 of Monographs on Dutch and Flemish Paintings. Doornspijk, 1984, no. DI57 (p.l 169A). Logan, A.M. Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1988, pp. 66-67, no. 24 (ill.). From Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Prints and Drawings from 1550 to 1700. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 2020, p. 9.

Esaias van de Velde, Tree Fallen Over a Path with Two Men Conversing, 1626, graphite and black crayon on off-white laid paper with a pen-and-brown ink border. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. George Kamperman, 46.175.