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A group of ten fishing people
The figure study shows a group of fishermen and women with baskets in calm conversation.
The unsigned drawing’s stylistic resemblance to drawings of similar subjects from the Milford Collection, now at the NMM, suggest a tentative attribution to Willem van de Velde, the Elder, and a date of about 1655, when the artist was particularly busy with grisailles, in which he introduced groups of people in the foreground.
The unsigned drawing’s stylistic resemblance to drawings of similar subjects from the Milford Collection, now at the NMM, suggest a tentative attribution to Willem van de Velde, the Elder, and a date of about 1655, when the artist was particularly busy with grisailles, in which he introduced groups of people in the foreground.
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Object Details
| ID: | PAE5189 |
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| Collection: | Fine art |
| Type: | Drawing |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Velde, Willem van de, the Elder |
| Date made: | 1655? |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Primary support: 117 mm x 169 mm; Mount: 316 mm x 480 mm |