Sea Battle
Mat: 21 x 26 1/2 inches (53.34 x 67.31 cm)
Graphic Masterworks from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 23-July 25, 1993, no cat.
Inked in Time: Six Centuries of Printed Masterpieces, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 22-May 31, 1998, no cat.
Dürer to Tiepolo: Works on Paper, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 3-October 7, 2007, no cat., as Sea Battle.
Dürer to Tiepolo: Works on Paper, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, December 12, 2012-June 9, 2013, no cat., as Sea Battle.
William Sharp (active mid-19th century), Manchester, England, by 1878 [1];
Sold at the Fine Collection of Prints and Drawings, the property of William Sharp, Esq., of Manchester, a friend of that eminent connoisseur Sir Mark Masterman Sykes sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge, London, March 1-11, 1878;
Contessa Rosa Piatti-Lochis (1856-1915), London and Crocetta, Italy, by 1915 [2];
Possibly with Ferrucio Asta (1900-1952), Venice, by 1937 [3];
With Hill-Stone, Inc., New York, by August 20, 1990;
Purchased from Hill-Stone, Inc., by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1990.
NOTES:
[1] Lugt 2650
[2] Lugt 2026c
[3] Asta was a Venetian dealer who purchased the Contessa Rosa Piatti-Lochis collection around 1935-37. It is unclear whether he purchased this work in his capacity as a dealer or as a collector. Lugt 116a.
Johann David Passavant, Le Peintre-Graveur, vol. 6 (Leipzig: R. Weigel, 1860-64), no. 11, p. 167, as Un Combat naval.
Catalogue of the Fine Collection of Prints and Drawings, the property of William Sharp, Esq., of Manchester, a friend of that eminent connoisseur Sir Mark Masterman Sykes (London: Sotheby, Wilkinson, Hodge, March 1-11, 1878).
George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 50-51, 307, (repro.), as Sea Battle.
