Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Ships in a Heavy Sea

Willem van de Velde
1633-1707

Ships in a Heavy Sea

1670
9 3/4 x 15 3/16 inches (248 x 385 mm)
Pen and brown ink (iron gall), over black chalk, with white chalk, on blue paper.
I, 148a

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

Notes
Watermark: Countermark: "TC" Watermark, transmitted. Letters, TC. 128434_I_148a_WM_transmitted.tiff
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed with initials and dated at lower right margin, in brown ink, "W.V.V J 170...".
Associated names
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Stampfle, Felice. Rubens and Rembrandt in Their Century : Flemish and Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century from The Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1979, no. 180, repr.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 313.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department