Bomschuiten setting out to sea, a study

Details

Hendrik Willem Mesdag (Dutch, 1831-1915)
Bomschuiten setting out to sea, a study
signed 'H W Mesdag' (lower right)
wax-crayon on paper
32 x 24 cm.

Provenance

A. Chariatte, London (L. 88a) (collector's stamp lower right).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Please compare the present lot with an oilpainting and a watercolour of comparible subject matter in Johan Poort's Hendrik Willem Mesdag: Oeuvrecatalogus (Wassenaar 1989) inv.no. 12.11 (p.304, col.ill. p. 374) and inv.no. A12.04 (p. 420).

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