DrawingsDutch17th-18th century

Four Ships

17th-18th century

Artists

Willem van de Velde IIArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown ink, black chalk, graphite, and white opaque watercolor on blue antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink

Culture

Dutch

Century

17th-18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

13.9 x 19.3 cm (5 1/2 x 7 5/8 in.) mount: 27.4 x 29.8 cm (10 13/16 x 11 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Possibly Rocco Leoni, Paris. Walter Schrott, Mendel, Tyrol (L. 2383, lower left). Unidentified collector, Austria, 1934(?), sold; to Christopher Harris; sold, [P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London, 1955, inv. no. A20923], sold; to Fritz B. Talbot, c. 1955, gift; to Harvard Art Museum, 1956. NOTE: Information on the transaction at Colnaghi was taken from their stock books, provided by Steven Ongpin.

Related Artworks

Drawings

Presentation of the Virgin at the Temple, after Tintoretto

George Hawley Hallowell, 1899-1900

Watercolor over graphite on heavy cardboard, waxed

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Untitled (blank, left page); Untitled (adhered photocopy of sketch of "Davy-Lampe," right page)

Otto Piene, 1999

Black ink, b/w photocopy on stationery, and adhesive on paper

20th centuryGerman

Drawings

Untitled (Bauhaus Form and Color Study)

Howard Dearstyne, 1928-1929

Collage of cut yellow-brown wove paper on blue wove paper

20th centuryGerman

Drawings

Youth in Cloak

Unidentified Artist, 15th century

Oil paint, retouched with brown wash and zinc white on dark cream antique laid paper laid down to dark cream antique laid paper prepared with brown wash, itself laid down to mount of Jonathan Richardson, Sr. (?)

15th centuryItalian

Drawings

Double figure study; verso: blank

Christopher Wilmarth, 20th century

Graphite on cream wove paper

20th centuryAmerican