Dune Scene with Peasant Figures
Willem van de Velde the Elder · mid-1650s · Cleveland Museum of Art
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Starting life as a sailor, Willem van de Velde was soon appointed to make drawings and paintings of ships in the Dutch navy, and, in 1672, he was appointed by the English king to record English vessels and naval campaigns. In this drawing, made across two oblong sheets of a sketchbook, Van de Velde turned his eye to the beach, using chalk to capture the flat beach, grassy dunes, and small village and church steeple on the coast of Holland. He added the groupings of figures and horse-drawn carts in the foreground later with pen and ink. This artist started his career as a sailor, but when his talent was recognized, he became a draftsman and painter of naval scenes and battles in both Holland and England.
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- Maker
- Willem van de Velde the Elder (Dutch, c. 1611–1693)
- Date
- mid-1650s
- Medium
- pen and brown ink over graphite on antique laid paper; lined with tissue paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 28.9 x 58.7 cm (11 3/8 x 23 1/8 in.); Matted: 36.2 x 60.5 x 0.5 cm (14 1/4 x 23 13/16 x 3/16 in.); Image: 17.5 x 49.5 cm (6 7/8 x 19 1/2 in.)
- Place of origin
- Netherlands
- Held by
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · Not on view
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
Image: Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0
