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Portrait of Ludolf Bakhuizen


Views of the River Ij and the Sea
D'Y Stroom en Zee gezichten
Jacob Gole (Dutch, 1660–1737)
Sitter: Ludolf Bakhuizen (Dutch, 1631–1708)
Dutch
1701

Medium/Technique Mezzotint
Dimensions Platemark (plate of the printed portrait): 18.2 x 14.5 cm (7 3/16 x 5 11/16 in.)
Sheet: 23 x 16.5 cm (9 1/16 x 6 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession Number97.1250.2
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Weigert suppl. p.198; Hollstein 1-10 b (additional plate added)
Signed signed
Marks No watermark evident
Verso, l.r.: Lugt 1870 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Harvey D. Parker Collection) and in black ink: 8220
Verso, b.c.: Lugt 1309 (Henry F. Sewall, about 1895, New York)
InscriptionsIn plate, at lower center: L. Bakhuizen out 71 jaar
On separate plate, at lower center: Aemula naturae Bakhusia dextra potentis / Vivi coloris artifex: / Picturae postquam implevit, genus omne Tropaeum / in aere feponit sibi
In plate, at lower left: Cum Privileg. ord Holland et West Frisie.
In plate, at lower right: Janus Broeckhusius
ProvenancePossibly Joseph Maberly (b. 1783 - d. 1860), London [see note 1]. Henry Foster Sewall (b. 1816 - d. 1896; Lugt 1309), New York; 1896, by inheritance to his son, Charles Sewall (b. 1848 - d. 1898); 1897, sold by Charles Sewall to the MFA [see note 2]. (Accession Date: April 11, 2022)

NOTES:

[1] A note on the mat of P8221, transcribed from an earlier mount, states: "Probably all of this series came from Joseph Maberly's collection, according to Mr. Sewall."

[2] Henry F. Sewall offered his collection to the MFA for purchase in 1888. That purchase was finalized in 1897, one year after Sewall's death.