Vent Frais (after Willem van der Velde the elder and Willem van der Velde the younger)
Pierre-Charles Canot (Paris 1710 - Kentish Town 1777)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1751
Materials
ink & paper
Measurements
340 x 420 mm
Order this imageCollection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 286472
Summary
Etching, Vent Frais (after Willem van der Velde the elder and Willem van der Velde the younger) by Pierre-Charles Canot ARA (Paris 1710 - Kentish Town 1777) . Entitled 'Vent Frais.' Published in 1751. A fishing boat is shown in a rough sea with a small boy pulling up a sail on a broken mast. A smaller boat full of figures pointing is nearby. Numbered '2', a good margin.
Marks and inscriptions
VENT FRAIS/.../No.2 (printed under image)
Makers and roles
Pierre-Charles Canot (Paris 1710 - Kentish Town 1777) , engraver (printmaker) Willem van der Velde the elder (Leyden 1611 – London 1693) and Willem van der Velde the younger (Leyden 1633 - London 1707), artist after Willem van der Velde the younger (Leyden 1633 – London 1707), artist