The Riding School
Artist
Adriaen van de Velde
Dutch, 1636–1672
Datecirca 1658
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions14 1/2 x 15 3/16 in. (36.8 x 38.6 cm)
Frame: 20 3/8 x 21 x 2 3/4 in. (51.8 x 53.3 x 7 cm)
Frame: 20 3/8 x 21 x 2 3/4 in. (51.8 x 53.3 x 7 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina
Object number52.9.60
On View
Not on view[1] According to the annotated version of the catalogue in the Frick Art Reference Library, the work was bought by Paillet himself.
[2] Information logged in the Getty Provenance Index entry. No specific catalogue holding cited.
[3] Documentary evidence from another 1848 sale (Getty Provenance Index) notes that Evans was buying old master paintings for Scarisbrick.
Published References“Catalogue du celèbre, magnifique & excellent cabinet de tableaux…par le
seigneur De Zweiten,” (auction catalogue) (The Hague, April 12, 1741), no. 126, as Un manége, Philippe Wouwerman.
“Catalogue des tableaux qui composent le cabinet de M. le Comte de Merle,”
(auction catalogue) (A.J. Paillet, Paris, March 1, 1784), no. 72bis, as Adrien van Denvelde.
John Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters (London, 1829-42), Part V, 187, no. 42 and Part IX (Supplement), 630, no. 6.
“Catalogue of the very select and choice collection of pictures of the right
honorable Lord Charles Townshend,” (auction catalogue) (Christie & Manson, London, April 11, 1835), lot 31, as Cavaliers at the Door of a Stable.
"Catalogue of the very choice and valuable collection of capital pictures, by Italian, Spanish, Dutch, and English masters, the property of Richard Sanderson, Esq.," (auction catalogue) (Christie & Manson, London, June 17, 1848).
George Redford, Art sales: A history of sales of pictures and other works of art (London: The Whitefriars Pr., 1888), vol. 2, 338 as The Manège by Adrian van de Velde (1861), and annotation 1892 as Le Manège.
The Fifth Series of 100 Paintings by Old Masters (Sedelmeyer Gallery, Paris, 1899), no. 59.
C[ornelis] Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century (London, 1912), IV, no. 173.
Algernon Graves, Art sales from early in the eighteenth century to early in the twentieth century (mostly Old Master and early English pictures) (London: Algernon Graves, 1921), vol. 3, 274.
“Belles Estampes anglaises du XVIIIe siècle…Tableaux anciens…Sièges et meubles anciens” (auction catalogue) (Paris: Hôtel Drouot, December 5, 1947), lot 40, as Le manège en plein air.
W. von Bode, Die Meister der holländischen und flämischen Malerschulen (Leipzig: E. A. Seemann, 1951), 300.
W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 71.
W. R Valentiner, "The Raleigh Museum's First 200 Paintings: Notes on the Collections," Art News (April 1956), illus. 48.
Marietta Frensemeier, Studien zu Adriaen van de Velde (1636-1672) (Aachen: Shaker Verlag, 2001), 29, illus. (b-w) fig. 18.
Dennis P. Weller, Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2009), cat. no. 44, illus. (color) 209.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Dutch Art in the Age of Rembrandt,” October 25, 1986-February 15, 1987.
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