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.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed with initials and dated at lower right margin, in brown ink, "W.V.V J 170...".
Watermark (countermark): Letters"TC"
Watermark (countermark): Letters"TC"
Associated names
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, 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.
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.
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Century Drawings
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