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Willem Pietersz Buytewech
1591 or 2-1624
River Landscape with Sailboats
ca. 1617-1620
Pen and brown and black ink and gray wash.
3 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches (85 x 190 mm)
Thaw Collection.
2017.22
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Watermark: none.
Inscription:
Inscribed at verso: at upper center, in a seventeenth-century hand, in brown ink, buijtewech; to the left of this, in a later hand, also in brown ink, Willem; at upper right, in graphite, Búitenweg / v. van Bie (?); and at lower left, also in graphite, rúh.
Provenance:
Carel Emil Duits (b. 1882), London (no mark [confirm]; Lugt S. 33[a]); sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 6 November 2001, lot 38, repr. (color); Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw, New York.
Associated names:
Duits, Carel Emil, 1882- former owner.
Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.
Bibliography:
Thaw Catalogue Raisonné, 2017, no. 29, repr.
The Thaw collection of master drawings : acquisitions since 2002. New York : Morgan Library & Museum, 2009, no. 8, repr.
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