Willem van de Velde
1633-1707
A Kaag in a Moderate Breeze, with the Wind on the Port Quarter; other Vessels under Sail in the Background
5 5/8 x 9 9/16 inches (143 x 243 mm)
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, over graphite, on paper.
I, 148d
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed at lower right, in brown ink, somewhat abraded, "W.V.V.J". Numbered on the verso, at upper right, in graphite, "38". On the old mount, at upper left, in graphite, "1043".
Watermark: Foolscap with seven points, over "4" and three balls.
Watermark: Foolscap with seven points, over "4" and three balls.
Associated names
Hawley, Joseph Henry, Sir, 1813-1875, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 312.
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Century Drawings
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