Lot 217: On choppy water near the Dutch coast

Casparus Johannes Morel (Dutch, 1798-1861)
On choppy water near the Dutch coast
signed 'C.J. Morel.ft' (lower left)
oil on panel
38.5 x 53 cm.

Wassenaar, Kunsthandel Leslie Smith, The second golden age of Dutch art: An exhibition of 19th Century Dutch Masters , 1986, pp. 80-81, ill.

Anonymous sale, Christie's, Amsterdam, 10-11 February 1988, lot 318, as: An aak approaching a jetty with a tjalk going about nearby in a stiff breeze, a three-master beyond.
Kunsthandel Leslie Smith, Wassenaar, 1990, where acquired by the present owner.

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