Old Master Drawings

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Lot 145
  • 145

Willem van de Velde the Younger

Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 USD
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Description

  • Willem van de Velde the Younger
  • Studies of the stern of the Dutch ship Dolfijn
  • Black chalk;
    numbered, center left: 5

Provenance

D.G. van Beuningen (L.758), by whose heirs sold, Amsterdam, Christie's, 16 November 1981, lot 87

Catalogue Note

These delightfully rapid sketches would appear to record the Dutch ship Dolfijn, which was also drawn by Willem van de Velde the Elder in around 1667, in a drawing now in Greenwich.1

1. M. Robinson, Van de Velde Drawings...in the National Maritime Museum.., vol. I, Cambridge 1958, pp. 69, 147, no. 313, reproduced p. 315, pl. 65