The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of May 30, 2023

View of Alkmaar with Boats

1600s

Netherlands, 17th century

Point of brush and gray ink and brush and gray wash with traces of pen and black ink over traces of graphite; framing lines in brown ink

Support: Beige(1) laid paper

Sheet: 13.8 x 20.4 cm (5 7/16 x 8 1/16 in.)

Dudley P. Allen Fund 1929.538

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

VERSO, upper right, in graphite: 25[n?] ; upper right, in graphite: 105 [circled] ; left center, in graphite: [illegible] 300 - (underlined, mostly erased); [Fb?]0 ; B[illegible] / 502 [slash part of inscription] ; center, in graphite: A520[7?] ; lower left, in graphite, beneath CMA stamp: [illegible]e ; lower left, in graphite: N65 [illegible] ; in brown ink: p 5 ; in graphite: 15; in black ink: No 31. ; lower center, in graphite: Ludolf Backhuysen. / Collections Sybouts, Lembruggen / et Gigoux.

Provenance
J. G. van Franckenstein
Sybouts
G. Leembruggen
J. -F. Gigoux
N. D. Goldsmid
J. G. van Franckenstein [Lugt 2987 (? see depatmental file), lower left, in black ink]
J. -F. Gigoux [Lugt 1164, lower left, in black ink]
N. D. Goldsmid [Lugt 1962, VERSO, lower left, in blue ink]
Exhibition history

Drawings in the Classic and Romantic Tradition before 1830. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 7, 1932-January 8, 1933).

Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-April 28, 1937).

Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, London. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 30-October 30, 1938).

Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 11-October 3, 1940).

Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 17-August 24, 1942).

Dutch Painting, The Golden Age. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 27, 1955).

Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 10-September 2, 1973).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1929.538