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Dune Scene with Peasant Figures
About the Artwork
Starting life as a sailor, Willem van de Velde was soon appointed to make drawings and paintings of ships in the Dutch navy, and, in 1672, he was appointed by the English king to record English vessels and naval campaigns. In this drawing, made across two oblong sheets of a sketchbook, Van de Velde turned his eye to the beach, using chalk to capture the flat beach, grassy dunes, and small village and church steeple on the coast of Holland. He added the groupings of figures and horse-drawn carts in the foreground later with pen and ink.
Inscriptions
On verso, left border in graphite: Strant fil (?)
Provenance
Private Collection, Amsterdam, Netherlands March 4, 2019: the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Willem van de Velde (Dutch, c. 1611–1693)
- Date
- mid-1650s
- Medium
- pen and brown ink over graphite on antique laid paper; lined with tissue paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 28.9 x 58.7 cm (11 3/8 x 23 1/8 in.); Matted: 36.2 x 60.5 x 0.5 cm (14 1/4 x 23 13/16 x 3/16 in.); Image: 17.5 x 49.5 cm (6 7/8 x 19 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Accession no.
- 2019.15
More by Willem van de Velde in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00011254
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