Lot 86: WIGERUS VITRINGA LEEUWARDEN 1657 - 1725 WIRDUM

SMALL VESSELS IN A STIFF BREEZE

measurements note
86 by 136mm

signed and dated in black chalk, upper left: W. Vitringa 1689; and numbered, verso, in pen and black ink: N^o. 797.

pen and black ink and grey wash, over black chalk, within black ink framing lines

PROVENANCE

Probably Cornelis Ploos van Amstel;
Jacob Helmolt, Haarlem (his numbering L.2986b, verso: N^o-797); Adolf von Beckerath, Berlin;
from whom acquired in 1902 by the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett (L.1612), deaccessioned as a duplicate 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. 310, inv. no. 14325.

NOTE

Dr. Hans-Ulrich Beck has kindly informed us that this drawing's Helmolt Collection inventory number of 797 falls within the range of those that he gave to drawings acquired from Ploos van Amstel, so although the drawing does not bear that collector's mark or inscriptions, it was almost certainly in his collection.