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WILLEM VAN DE VELDE THE YOUNGER (LEIDEN 1633-1707 LONDON)

Lot 23
08.12.2022 18:30UTC +00:00
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Lot 23 | WILLEM VAN DE VELDE THE YOUNGER (LEIDEN 1633-1707 LONDON)
Estimate value
£ 400 000 – 600 000
WILLEM VAN DE VELDE THE YOUNGER (LEIDEN 1633-1707 LONDON)

A Calm – A kaag alongside a smalschip at anchor, with a weyschuit being pushed off the shore and a man-of-war firing a salute beyond

signed with initials 'W VV' (lower right, on a piece of driftwood)

oil on canvas

13 3/8 x 14 7/8 in. (34 x 37.8 cm.)





Provenance

H.R.H. Charles Ferdinand de Bourbon, duc de Berry (1778-1820), Palais de l'Élysée, Paris, by whom bequeathed to his wife,

H.R.H. Marie Caroline de Bourbon, duchesse de Berry (1798-1870), château of Rosny-sur-Seine, by whom exhibited for private sale,

with Christie's, London, April 1834, no. 72, where unsold and subsequently offered at the following,

Galerie du Palais de l'Élysée; Bataillard and Paillet, Paris, 4-6 April 1837, lot 74 (3,810 francs to Charles J. Nieuwenhuys on behalf of the following).

Johan Steengracht van Oostcapelle (1782-1846), and by descent to his son,

Hendrik Steengracht van Oosterland (1808-1875), and by inheritance to his nephew,

Hendricus Adolphus Steengracht van Duivenvoorde (1836-1912); his sale (†), Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 9 June 1913, lot 77 (21,000 francs to Stettiner); acquired shortly after by the family of the present owners.



Literature

J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French painters, London, 1835, XI, pp. 385-86, no. 230.

J. Smith, Supplement to the Catalogue Raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French painters, London, 1842, IX, p. 767, no. 38.

J. Cassell (publisher), The Works of Eminent Masters, London, 1854, I, p. 55.

T. van Westrheene, ed., Kunstkronijk, Leiden, 1857, XVIII, p. 50, illustrated.

J.F. van Someren, Oude Kunst in Nederland, Amsterdam, 1890, illustrated.

E. Michel, Les artistes célèbres, les Van de Velde, Paris, 1892, p. 127.

G. Lafenestre and E. Richtenberger, La peinture en Europe: la Hollande, Paris, 1898, pp. 161-62.

H. de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch painters of the seventeenth century, London, 1923, VII, pp. 86-87, no. 313.

C.G. 't Hooft, Vereeniging tot Bevordering van beeldende kunsten: verzameling Jhr. Steengracht van Duivenvoorde, Amsterdam, 1899, unpaginated, no. 12, illustrated.

M. Robinson, Van de Velde: A catalogue of the paintings of the Elder and the Younger Willem van de Velde, London, 1990, I, p. 389, no. 745, where catalogued as 'canvas, laid down on panel ... described from a reproduction'.



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Artist:Willem van de Velde II (1633 - 1707)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Genre:Marine art
Place of origin:Western Europe, Europe, The Netherlands
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