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Fishing Boats by the Shore in a Calm
Willem van de Velde the Younger (Dutch, 1633–1707)
about 1660-65
Medium/Technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
30.2 x 37.5 cm (11 7/8 x 14 3/4 in.)
Framed: 51.8 x 58.7 x 5.7 cm (20 3/8 x 23 1/8 x 2 1/4 in.)
Framed: 51.8 x 58.7 x 5.7 cm (20 3/8 x 23 1/8 x 2 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Promised gift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art
Accession NumberL-R 203.2015
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings
ProvenanceBy 1891, Ludvig Holstein-Holsteinborg (b. 1815 – d. 1892), Holsteinborg, Denmark [see note 1]; by descent within the Holstein-Holstenborg family [see note 2]. June 20, 1928, anonymous sale, Mensing-Muller, Amsterdam, lot 51, sold to Nicolaas Beets (dealer; b. 1878 – d. 1963), Amsterdam. By 1929, Pieter Smidt van Gelder (b. 1878 – d. 1956), Amsterdam [see note 3]. November 20–23, 1951, anonymous sale, F. Muller, Amsterdam, lot 125, sold to Dirk Albert Hoogendijk (dealer; b. 1895 – d. 1975), Amsterdam [see note 4]. Sidney J. van den Bergh (b. 1898 – d. 1977), Wassenaar [see note 5]. By 1960, J. R. Bier (dealer), Haarlem [see note 6]; by descent to Drs. I. Bier, Bloemendaal [see note 7]. By 1963, Johannes Hans Gispen (b. 1905 – d. 1968) and Barendina Gispen-van Eijnsbergen (b. 1904 – d. 1981), Nijmegen, the Netherlands [see note 8]. Newhouse Galleries, New York. By 1985, Charles C. Cunningham, Boston. 2004, acquired by Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo, Marblehead, MA.
NOTES:
[1] He lent this to the Kunstforeningen Copenhagen, Fortegnelse over Billeder af Gammel Kunst (Copenahgen, 1891), cat. no. 220, “Calm by a Dutch Coast,” measuring 30 x 37 cm.
[2] According to Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. 7 (London, 1923), cat. no. 323.
[3] He lent this to the Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of Dutch Art 1450-1900 (London, 1929), cat. no. 291.
[4] According to the Hoogendijk and Co. inventory card. Many thanks to Diteke de Ruijter-Ekema of the RKD for supplying this information.
[5] According to the Dordrechts Museum, Zee- Rivier- en Oevergezichten: Nederlandse schilderijen uit de zeventiende eeuw (Dordrecht, 1964), cat. no. 86.
[6] J.R. Bier, Tentoonstelling van Hollandse 17e Eeuwse Meesters (Haarlem, 1960), cat. no. 26.
[7] According to Frederick Duparc, Golden: Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection (New Haven, 2011), cat. 62.
[8] According to the Waag Nijmegen, Kunst uit Nijmeegs Particulier Bezit (Nijmegen, 1963), cat. 34. A label on the back of the painting from the 1964 exhibition at the Dordrechts Museum notes the owners are “Mr. and Mrs. Gispen-van Eijnsbergen, Nijmegen.”
NOTES:
[1] He lent this to the Kunstforeningen Copenhagen, Fortegnelse over Billeder af Gammel Kunst (Copenahgen, 1891), cat. no. 220, “Calm by a Dutch Coast,” measuring 30 x 37 cm.
[2] According to Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. 7 (London, 1923), cat. no. 323.
[3] He lent this to the Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of Dutch Art 1450-1900 (London, 1929), cat. no. 291.
[4] According to the Hoogendijk and Co. inventory card. Many thanks to Diteke de Ruijter-Ekema of the RKD for supplying this information.
[5] According to the Dordrechts Museum, Zee- Rivier- en Oevergezichten: Nederlandse schilderijen uit de zeventiende eeuw (Dordrecht, 1964), cat. no. 86.
[6] J.R. Bier, Tentoonstelling van Hollandse 17e Eeuwse Meesters (Haarlem, 1960), cat. no. 26.
[7] According to Frederick Duparc, Golden: Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection (New Haven, 2011), cat. 62.
[8] According to the Waag Nijmegen, Kunst uit Nijmeegs Particulier Bezit (Nijmegen, 1963), cat. 34. A label on the back of the painting from the 1964 exhibition at the Dordrechts Museum notes the owners are “Mr. and Mrs. Gispen-van Eijnsbergen, Nijmegen.”