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Beautiful etching with aquatint from 1903-1904 depicting an Amsterdam cityscape.
Image size 49x68.7 cm. Plate size 50.1x69.9 cm. Frame size 74x93x3 cm.
Pencil signed lower right.
Initials in the plate at the bottom left.
Former Kunsthandel Borzo, see sticker on the back.
Literature: Catalogue De Groot no.108, Boon no.102 and Van Wisselingh no. 433 (I-XX and 21-100: Interior II).
View of ships in the Waalseilandsgracht and Binnenkant 13 to 4 (partially). Mirror image.
Willem Witsen was born in Amsterdam on 13 August 1860 and died there on 13 April 1923. He was educated at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam.
Student of August Allebé. Teacher of, among others, Dirk Harting and Willem G. Hofker.
Besides the Netherlands, he worked in London, Venice, San Francisco and Indonesia.
Was one of the so-called Tachtigers and very friendly with Georg Hendrik Breitner.
Painter, watercolourist and graphic artist. Best known for his Amsterdam cityscapes.