Lot 88: PIETER JANSZ. COOPSE HOORN 1638 - 1673

ESTUARY SCENE WITH FISHING VESSELS AND A ROWING BOAT

measurements note
227 by 353mm

point of the brush and brown and grey ink, over black chalk, within brown ink framing lines

PROVENANCE

Adolf von Beckerath, Berlin;
from whom acquired in 1902 by the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett (L.1612), deaccessioned some time after 1931 (L.2482);
Sir Bruce Ingram (L.1405a), from whom acquired in 1951

LITERATURE

E. Bock and J. Rosenberg, Die Zeichnungen in den Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, die niederländischen Meister, 2 vols., Frankfurt 1931, p. 299, inv. no. 14135 (as Willem van de Velde the Younger)

NOTE

The broadly applied wash and rounded figures of this drawing bear close comparison to a scene signed by Pieter Coopse of Dutch Men o' War getting under way, sold London, Sotheby's, 15 November 1983, lot 184.