The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of May 30, 2023

Yacht Receiving Salute

c. 1700

Willem van de Velde

(Dutch, c. 1611–1693)

Netherland, early 18th Century

Pen and brown ink over graphite

Support: Beige(1) laid paper laid down on cream(3) laid paper

Sheet: 16.9 x 29 cm (6 5/8 x 11 7/16 in.)

Delia E. Holden Fund 1961.36

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, lower left, in brown ink: J. Thane sale 1819 W.E.[in ligature] P. 95 N 148 ; lower left, in graphite: J. Thane + W. Esdale Collections ; upper left, in graphite: 34 [circled, erased] ; upper left, in graphite: 19 [erased] / P [erased] ; upper right, in graphite: 4 [?] ; lower center, in graphite: [illegible, erased] ; lower right, in graphite: [illegible, erased]

Provenance
J. Thane
W. Esdaile
Dr. A. Welker
E. J. Otto
John Thane (Lugt 1544 , inscribed, lower left, in black ink). W. Esdaile (Lugt 2617, inscribed, lower right, in brown ink). Dr. A. Welker (according to departmental cataloging sheet; Lugt 2793c, not stamped). Ernst Jürgen Otto (Lugt 873b, verso, lower center, in brown ink). [H.N. Bier]
Citations
Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions Press Release,” July 20, 1961, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org
Exhibition history

Year in Review (1961). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 1-26, 1961).

Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963).

Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 1-March 24, 1965).

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

Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Graphics. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-August 1, 1982).

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