drawing

Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

Object Type: drawing
Museum number: 1895,0915.1329
Description: The angel appearing to the shepherds; with cattle, sheep and goats Brush drawing in brown wash, over black chalk
Producer name: Drawn by: Adriaen van de Velde
School/style: Dutch
Production date: 1650-1672
Materials: paper
Technique: drawn
Dimensions: Height: 172 millimetres; Width: 202 millimetres
Curator's comments: Literature: W. Bernt, 'Die Niederländischen Zeichner des 17. Jahrhundert', II, 1958, no.591; B. Cornelis and M. Schapelhouman, Adriaen van de Velde Dutch Master of Landscape (Rijksmuseum and Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2016-17), no. 60.
Bibliographic references: Hind 1915-31 / Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (24); JCR / Descriptive Catalogue of drawings by old masters forming the collection of John Malcolm of Poltalloch (854)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 2016 1 Jun-1 Sep, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 'Adriaen van de Velde (1636-1672)' 2016/17 Oct-Jan, London, Dulwich Picture Gallery , 'Adriaen van de Velde (1636-1672)'
Subjects: angels appearing to shepherds
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Col John Wingfield Malcolm
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Marquis de Lagoy (L.1710); Previous owner/ex-collection: John Heywood Hawkins; Previous owner/ex-collection: John Malcolm of Poltalloch
Acquisition date: 1895
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1895,0915.1329
Conservation: Treatment: 13 May 2016

Free entry

Opening hours