Fishermen Drying Nets on Scheveningen Beach

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Prints and Drawings

early 1630s

Simon de Vlieger
Dutch, c. 1600/01-1653

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Simon de Vlieger
Title: Fishermen Drying Nets on Scheveningen Beach
Place: Holland (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1630–1635
Medium: Black and white chalk on tan laid paper, laid down on tan wove paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower right, in pen and brown ink: "S d Vligir"
Dimensions: Primary support: 28.5 × 44.4 cm (11 1/4 × 17 1/2 in.); Secondary support: 32.9 × 48 cm (13 × 18 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: Alsdorf Miscellaneous Funds
Reference Number: 1960.27
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Christian P. van Eeghen, “Simon de Vlieger as a Draftsman, II: Chalk Drawings Other than Pure Landscapes,” Master Drawings 49, no. 2 (summer 2001), pp. 200–01, fig. 44.
Shelley Perlove and George S. Keyes (editors), Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), pp. 115, 196–97, no. 80 (ill.).

London, P.&D. Colnaghi, Old Master Drawings, 28 May–27 June, 1959, cat. 30.
New York, Wildenstein and Company, Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 17–Nov. 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 28.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age”, September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 247, 251 (ill.), 318, cat. 96, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

George Edward Habich (died 1901), Boston and Cassel, Germany; sold, H. G. Gutekunst, Stuttgart, April 27–29, 1899, lot 721 [Perlove and George S. Keyes 2014]. London, P&D Colnaghi, by 1959 [London 1959 exh. Cat.]. Sold by the Paul Drey Gallery to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1960.

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