The 50 plates / Plate 23 of 50
Plate 23 of 50
Fishing Life on the Shore
Fischerleben am Strande
Simon de Vlieger
Not yet located
The drawing
A busy Dutch fishing beach with a large beached sailing vessel, fishermen tending their catch and equipment, figures resting on the dunes, and a horse-drawn cart near smaller boats along the shoreline.
Becker, 1922
As Felix Becker published it in 1922.
- Attribution
- Simon de Vlieger
- Title as printed
- Fischerleben am Strande
- Title in English
- Fishing Life on the Shore
- Medium and size
- Black chalk with wash, 16 × 29 cm
- Inscription
- Monogram read by Becker as “S DE VL”, lower left
- Collection in 1922
- Geheimrat A. Köster, Leipzig (bought at Muller, Amsterdam, 1908)
Today
Modern cataloguing and the drawing’s whereabouts, as far as they are known.
- Status
- Not yet located
- Where is it now?
- Not yet located. No post-Becker museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing.
- Attribution today
- Simon de Vlieger, as attributed by Becker. A faint mark appears at the lower-left corner of the drawing, but its reading and authenticity have not been established.
The sheet in this copy
Sources
- Felix Becker, Handzeichnungen alter Meister in Privatsammlungen (Leipzig, 1922), plate 23.
- No later museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing so far.