Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

A Dutch Coastal Scene near Scheveningen, with Fishing Pinks Hauled up on Rollers and with a Group of Fishing People in the Center

Attributed to Simon de Vlieger
-1653

A Dutch Coastal Scene near Scheveningen, with Fishing Pinks Hauled up on Rollers and with a Group of Fishing People in the Center

6 5/8 x 12 inches (167 x 305 mm)
Pen and brown ink, gray wash, on paper; ruled lines in graphite at right and bottom edges.
III, 184

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower right, in brown ink, "Scheveling".
Associated names
Esdaile, William, 1758-1837, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, III, 184, repr.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 326.
Christiaan P. van Eeghen, “Simon de Vlieger as a Draftsman, I: The Pen Drawings”, Master Drawings 44 (2006): 19, 22.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department