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Prints and Drawings
Public domain
Artist: Herman Saftleven II, Dutch, 1609–1685

Two Boats Near Shore, One Having Pitch Burned

ca. 1640–70

Charcoal and wash

sheet: 9 × 6.1 cm (3 9/16 × 2 3/8 in.)
Gift of Otto Naumann, Ph.D. 1979, in memory of Charles Ryskamp
2010.67.1
Geography: 
Made in The Netherlands
Status: 
By appointment, Duffy Study Room
Culture: 
Dutch
Period: 
17th century
Classification: 
Works on Paper - Drawings and Watercolors
Provenance: 

Collection Edward Le May, Toronto; purchased by L. Steigrad, New York, 1999; purchased from Steigrad by Otto Naumann May 5, 1999.

Bibliography: 

“Acquisitions,” https://artgallery.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Pub_Bull_acquisitions_2010.pdf (accessed 2012).

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.