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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1979.125
People
Willem van de Velde II, Dutch (Leiden 1633 - 1707 Greenwich)
Title
Group of Men in a Boat
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/295549

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk, some contours incised, on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
actual: 19 x 30.7 cm (7 1/2 x 12 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Lower left, brown ink: w.v.v.f.
  • inscription: verso, upper left, black chalk: 2 bre [?]
  • inscription: verso, upper center, graphite: 478
  • watermark: IC [countermark]
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite, in artist's hand: een... [illegible, erased]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
L'Art Ancien, Zurich, 1965, catalogue 50, no. 43. Philip and Frances L. Hofer, Cambridge, Massachusetts; bequest of Frances L. Hofer, 1979.125

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Frances L. Hofer
Accession Year
1979
Object Number
1979.125
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Handzeichnungen, auct. cat., L'Art Ancien (Zurich, Switzerland, n.d.), cat. no. 45, repr., n.p.

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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