View of a Dutch Town (Delft?)

Willem van de Velde the Younger

Artist, Dutch, 1633 - 1707

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite and gray wash on laid paper, incised with stylus

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 18 × 28.8 cm (7 1/16 × 11 5/16 in.)
    mount: 24.7 × 41.1 cm (9 3/4 × 16 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1972.58.2

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Émile Calando [1840 - 1898], Paris, (Lugt 837); (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 17 - 18 March 1927, lot 251). Herman Shickman Gallery, New York; purchased by NGA, 1972.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1974

  • Recent Acquisitions and Promised Gifts: Sculptures, Drawings, Prints. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1974:209.

Inscriptions

lower left corner on mount, by later hand, in graphite: RLTTS +HE; lower right corner on mount, by later hand, in graphite: D17750 L461; verso, lower right, by later hand, in graphite: no. 100 [encircled]; upper left verso, by later hand in very faint graphite: W. V de Velde nov cyi / [not deciphered]; by later hand, center left verso in very faint graphite: [not deciphered] Calando / No [not deciphered]; by later hand, lower right verso in very faint graphite: Velde, Willlem van de [not deciphered] / for a large(?) [not deciphered] lower right corner, by later hand, in graphite: L461 / 749; verso, lower left, by later hand, in graphite: RLTTS

Markings

stamped in black ink: Émile Calando collection (Lugt 837)

Watermarks

Arms of France and Navarre

Wikidata ID

Q64636126

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