1932.364: Ships in a Storm

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.364

People

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

Title

Ships in a Storm

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

17th century

Culture

Dutch

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298560

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black chalk and white opaque watercolor on blue antique laid paper, faded, framing line in brown ink

Dimensions

12.6 × 20.8 cm (4 15/16 × 8 3/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: lower left, brown ink: W. V. V.
• inscription: verso, upper left, brown ink: Utrechts Fundatie Huis.
• inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 8a [or ga]
• watermark: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

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

1932.364

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. 535, pp. 281; vol. 2, repr. fig. 275 as Velde the Elder
• The Draughtsman at Work. Drawing in the Golden Century of Dutch Art, checklist (unpublished, 1980), no. 39
• 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

• The Draughtsman at Work. Drawing in the Golden Century of Dutch Art, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/21/1980 - 01/04/1981

Subjects and Contexts

• Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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