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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.344
People
Willem van de Velde the Elder, Dutch (1611 - 1693)
Previously attributed to Wenceslaus Hollar, Bohemian (Prague 1607 - 1677 London)
Title
A View of the Shore with Boats
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296474

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink, gray wash, and touches of graphite on off-white antique laid paper
Dimensions
4.4 x 30.2 cm (1 3/4 x 11 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: former mount, black ink: HOLLAR
  • watermark: fragment of a Strasbourg lily? or crozier?
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: D2 [same hand as CA]
  • incipit: verso, lower center, graphite: CA [same hand as D2]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Frederick Keppel & Co., New York] sold (by 1927); to Meta and Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Massachusetts (L. 2091, without his mark), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.344
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Johannes Urzidil and Franz Sprinzels, Wenceslaus Hollar, der kupferstecher des barock, Dr. R. Passer (Vienna, Austria, 1936), p. 110, no. 347, p. 41, fig. 224
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 400, pp. 205-6; vol. 2, repr. fig. 206 (as Wenceslaus Hollar)
  • Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), cat. no. 24, repr.
  • Netherlandish and Italianate Old Master Drawings, auct. cat., Bob P. Haboldt & Co. (New York, NY, 1990), under cat. no. 38
  • Jane Turner, Rembrandt's World: Dutch Drawings from the Clement C. Moore Collection, exh. cat., The Morgan Library & Museum (2012), under cat. no. 44, pp. 108 and 208 (n. 3)

Exhibition History

  • Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947
  • Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965] Given and Bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/15/1965 - 01/15/1966; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 12/19/1966 - 02/26/1967
  • The Heavenly Twins: Edward W. Forbes, Paul J. Sachs and the Building of a Collection, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/23/1995 - 12/17/1995

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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