March: Ships at Sea

Artists

Dimensions

15.8 x 20.9 cm (6 1/4 x 8 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Unidentified Dutch collector, c. 1700 (his inscription, verso, lower center). Probably Pieter Testas de Jonge, Amsterdam, sold; [probably De Leth, Amsterdam, 29 March 1757 and following days, under lots H. 404-415], entire series of the Twelve Months sold; to Van Beest. Possibly Bernardus Hagelis, Amsterdam, possibly sold; [De Leth, Amsterdam, 8 March 1762, lot F. 484, as part of entire series.] Dionys Muilman, Amsterdam, sold; [De Bosch, Amsterdam, 29 March 1773 and following days, under lots I. 634-45], entire series; to Jacob de Vos, Amsterdam. Possibly Nicolaas Nieuhoff, Amsterdam, possibly sold; [Van der Schley, Amsterdam, 14 April 1777 and following days, under lots Q.1256-62] as individual sheets; to various buyers (Ploos, Fouquet, Oets and Yver). Probably Jan Hulswit, Amsterdam, probably sold; [De Vries, Amsterdam, 20 October 1822, lot H. 4.]; to De Vries. Probably Hendrik Harmen Klijn, Amsterdam, probably sold; [Roos, Amsterdam, 27 May 1856, lot 26]; to Engelberts. Madame… van Kinschot-Luden, Amsterdam, or “Fundatie Renswoude,” Utrecht, sold; [Muller, Amsterdam, 31 January 1899 and following days, lot 747.] Amsterdam collector or trade, sold; to Charles A. Loeser, New York and Florence, 1901 (his inscription, verso); Bequest of Charles A. Loeser, 1932.206* *Alice Davies expertly reconstructed the provenance of this drawing, along with the larger series of the Twelve Months to which it belongs, in her monograph of Everdingen’s drawings, see Davies 2007, pp. 365-66, cat. nos. 529 and 531, and pp. 40, 104-5. The series appears to have remained largely intact – despite often having been sold as separate lots – until the sale of Nicolaas Nieuhoff in 1777, where four buyers each claimed a portion of the twelve sheets. The descriptions in this sale catalogue are not detailed enough, however, to know for certain if the series as sold consisted of the Everdingen’s original suite or one cobbled together of mismatched sheets, nor which buyer purchased our drawing. Nonetheless, thereafter, Ships at Sea was sold as an independent sheet.