Petrus Johannes SCHOTEL (Dordrecht 1808 - Dresden 1865)

Shipping on a Choppy Sea

Pen and brown ink and grey wash, with framing lines in black ink.
Signed P. J. Schotel at the lower right.
Further inscribed P. J. Schotel on the former backing sheet.
267 x 370 mm. (10 1/2 x 14 1/2 in.)

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This may be a view near Katwijk aan Zee. A similar wash drawing of shipping in a strong wind by Petrus Schotel was formerly in the Hans van Leeuwen collection.

Provenance:
Johannes Andreas Jolles, Amsterdam(?)
His sale, Amsterdam, 27 November 1848, lot 256 (‘Een onstuimige Zee; natuurlijk voorgesteld, met vaartuigen gestoffeerd en met dito geteekend’)
Marinus van Regteren Altena, Amsterdam
By descent to Iohan Quirijn van Regteren Altena, Amsterdam (with his posthumous sale stamp [Lugt 4617] stamped on the verso)
Thence by descent.