Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831-1915)

La Mer du Nord

Details

Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831-1915)
La Mer du Nord
signed lower right HW Mesdag
watercolour on paper, unframed
13 x 22.5 cm

Provenance

Harry S. Chase, thence by descent; Sale Harry Chase Art Portfolios, Skowhegan, Farrins Country Auctions, 27 May 1994, lot 2.

Lot Essay

Possibly a prelimimary sketch for the famous Les Brisants du Mer du
Nord, 1870 (Private collection, The Netherlands, see J. Poort, Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Wassenaar 1989, p. 180, no 1870.12)

For further information on the artist, see lot 142.

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