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Willem van de Velde the Younger
Description
- Willem van de Velde the Younger
- a calm day with weyschuits off a beach, and other vessels including a man o' war firing a salute offshore
- signed with monogram on a spar lower right: WvV
- oil on canvas
Provenance
Reputedly Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), and possibly the 'Marine' by Van de Velde recorded in his Paris inventory of 1903;
August Berg, Portland, Oregon;
Fernand Stuyk, Antwerp, 1930;
His sale, Brussels, Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, 17 December 1960, lot 127;
Dr. Hans Wetzlar, Amsterdam.
Exhibited
Liège, Grande saison Internationale de l'eau, 1939, no. 9;
Laren 1966, no. 56.
Literature
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné..., vol. VII, London 1923, p. 98, no. 368;
Voorkeuren, 1985, p. 68, reproduced p. 69.
Condition
"This lot is offered for sale subject to Sotheby's Conditions of Business, which are available on request and printed in Sotheby's sale catalogues. The independent reports contained in this document are provided for prospective bidders' information only and without warranty by Sotheby's or the Seller."
Catalogue Note
It is surprising that this picture seems to have eluded the attentions of Michael Robinson when compiling his catalogue raisonné of paintings by Willem van de Velde the Elder and Younger.1 It is close in style, handling and composition to a group of inshore calm scenes with fishing boats unloading their catch or preparing to depart that Willem van de Velde the Younger painted in the early 1670s. Several of these incorporate two weyschuits very similarly arranged; for example the picture at Petworth House, which is known in further variants.2
We are grateful to Professor Jan Kelch and Dr. Michael Hall for their help in cataloguing this lot.
1. M.S. Robinson, Van de Velde. A Catalogue of the Paintings of the Elder and the Younger Willem van de Velde, Greenwich 1990.
2. See Robinson, op. cit., vol. I, pp. 446-50, no. 185, reproduc🌸ed (no. 185 2).