Dunkirk

Title

Dunkirk

Draughtsman

• Willem van de Velde the Younger ?

Period Produced

• 17th century

School

• Baroque

Object Type

• drawing

Material

• graphite-clay mixture
• chalk
• paper

Technique

• watercolour painting
• brush drawing
• chalk drawing

Geographic Reference

• Netherlandish

Production Reason

• Pictorial drawing
• landscape study

Label at the Time of Manufacture

Bezeichnet oben mittig (mit der Feder in Braun): Duynkerke

Captions Added Later

Verso unten mittig Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356), mit zugehöriger Inventarnummer

Watermark

• Nicht geprüft

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Genre

• landscape

Primary

• 25I12(+1) prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage)
• 46C11 road, path
• 46C53 migrants
• 25I41(+1) windmill in landscape (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage)
• 25H213(+1) river (+ landscape with figures, staffage)
• 41A54 fence, wall, paling
• 46C24 sailing-ship, sailing-boat
• 11Q712 church (exterior)
• 61E(DUNKERQUE) names of cities and villages (DUNKERQUE)

Alternative Attribution

• Justus de Verwer ? draughtsman; by note on mount