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Fishermen Drying Nets on Scheveningen Beach
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, lower right, in pen and brown ink: "S d Vligir"
Provenance
George Edward Habich (died 1901), Boston and Cassel, Germany; sold, H. G. Gutekunst, Stuttgart, April 27–29, 1899, lot 721 [Perlove and George S. Keyes 2014]. London, P&D Colnaghi, by 1959 [London 1959 exh. Cat.]. Sold by the Paul Drey Gallery to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1960.
Exhibition history
London, P.&D. Colnaghi, Old Master Drawings, 28 May–27 June, 1959, cat. 30. New York, Wildenstein and Company, Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 17–Nov. 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 28. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 247, 251 (ill.), 318, cat. 96, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.
Publications
Christian P. van Eeghen, “Simon de Vlieger as a Draftsman, II: Chalk Drawings Other than Pure Landscapes,” Master Drawings 49, no. 2 (summer 2001), pp. 200–01, fig. 44. Shelley Perlove and George S. Keyes (editors), Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), pp. 115, 196–97, no. 80 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Simon de Vlieger / Dutch, c. 1600/01-1653
- Date
- early 1630s
- Medium
- Black and white chalk on tan laid paper, laid down on tan wove paper
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 28.5 × 44.4 cm (11 1/4 × 17 1/2 in.); Secondary support: 32.9 × 48 cm (13 × 18 15/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- chalk
- Place
- Holland
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Alsdorf Miscellaneous Funds
- Accession no.
- 1960.27
More by Simon de Vlieger in museum collections
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