1932.363: Seascape

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.363

People

Willem van de Velde II, Dutch (Leiden 1633 - 1707 Greenwich)

Title

Seascape

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

17th century

Culture

Dutch

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298553

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink and (later?) gray wash over graphite on off-white antique laid paper; verso: black chalk

Dimensions

13.3 × 23.3 cm (5 1/4 × 9 3/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• collector's mark: lower right, black ink, stamp: L. 2600 (Earl of Warwick)
• watermark: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

George Guy, 4th Earl of Warwick, Warwick Castle, Stratford (L. 2600, lower right).
Charles A. Loeser, Florence, Italy, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1932.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles A. Loeser

Accession Year

1932

Object Number

1932.363

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 538, p. 282; vol. 2, repr. fig. 276
• An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, checklist, Unpublished (1954), cat. no. 65, p. 16
• Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 122 ("Cartella C.L.")

Exhibition History

• An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/01/1954 - 04/30/1954

Subjects and Contexts

• Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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