Willem van de Velde the Younger

Entrance to a Dutch Port



Willem van de Velde the Younger - Entrance to a Dutch Port



Willem van de Velde the Younger
Entrance to a Dutch Port
c. 1665
65.7 x 77.8 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed, lower left: W.V.V.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Bequest of William K. Vanderbilt, 1920


Literature

Collection catalogues
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 201 info


Provenance

?J.B. Horion, Brussels, until his death
his estate sale, Brussels, 1ff. September 1788, nr. 170, to Pauwels
?François Pauwels, Brussels, 1788–1803
his estate sale, Brussels, 22 August 1803, nr. 111
?Gerrit Muller, Amsterdam and Brussels, until 1827
his sale, 2 April 1827, nr. 73, to Nieuwenhuys
?Chrétien J. Nieuwenhuys, Brussels, 1827–33
his sale, Christie's, London, 10-11 May 1833, nr. 121, bought in
?Captain Octavius Henry Cyril Vernon Harcourt, London, by 1834–at least 1843
or Richard Foster, Clewer Manor, Windsor, Berkshire, until died 1830
his son, Edmund Foster, Clewer Manor, 1830–died 1862
his son, Edmund Benson Foster, Clewer Manor, until 1862–76
sale, collection of the late Richard Foster, Christie's, London, 3 June 1876, nr. 11, to Samuels
William K. Vanderbilt, New York, until died 1920

External links

RKD 58243
Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 20.155.6

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Ships at a quiet sea
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