The 50 plates / Plate 22 of 50
Plate 22 of 50
Village in Winter
Dorf im Winter
Esaias van de Velde
Not yet located
The drawing
A quiet Dutch winter village beside a frozen waterway, with several figures and a dog on the ice, moored boats, timber scattered along the bank, thatched cottages, bare trees, and a distant church steeple.
Becker, 1922
As Felix Becker published it in 1922.
- Attribution
- Esaias van de Velde
- Title as printed
- Dorf im Winter
- Title in English
- Village in Winter
- Date
- 1627 (signed and dated on the drawing)
- Medium and size
- Chalk with washes, 19 × 28.5 cm
- Inscription
- Signed “E. V. VELDE. 1627”
- Collection in 1922
- Limburger collection, Leipzig (formerly von Liphart)
Today
Modern cataloguing and the drawing’s whereabouts, as far as they are known.
- Status
- Not yet located
- Where is it now?
- Not yet located. No post-Becker museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing.
- Attribution today
- Esaias van de Velde, as attributed by Becker. The reproduction bears the inscription “E. V. VELDE 1627,” but no independent modern attribution has been verified.
The sheet in this copy
Sources
- Felix Becker, Handzeichnungen alter Meister in Privatsammlungen (Leipzig, 1922), plate 22.
- No later museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing so far.