Adriaen van de Velde (Dutch, 1636–1672)
Pastoral Landscape with Ruins
INV-0863
Adriaen van de Velde (Dutch, 1636–1672)1664
Pastoral Landscape with Ruins
Adriaen van de Velde (Dutch, 1636–1672) →17th Centuryoil on canvaspaint
Date
1664
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
67 × 78.4 cm (26 3/8 × 30 7/8 in.); Framed: 81.3 × 92.4 × 6.4 cm (32 × 36 3/8 × 2 1/2 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Sidney A. Kent Fund
With its warm southern sunlight and leisurely interactions between herders, this painting of the Italian countryside would have affirmed urban Dutch perceptions of rural areas as places of innocence and peace. The son of a painter, Adriaen van de Velde was also inspired by the cattle pieces of Paulus Potter and the Italianate pastoral scenes of Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem. He achieved a harmonious balance of elements by studying the landscape from life as well as by sketching the cattle in the pasture and the human figures in the studio.
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