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Jan van de Cappelle

Shipping Scene on a Calm Sea with a Jetty at Left

Estimate

2,000,000 - 3,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Jan van de Cappelle

Amsterdam 1626 - 1679

Shipping Scene on a Calm Sea with a Jetty at Left


signed lower right on boat: IVC

oil on panel

panel: 25 ¼ by 34 ¼ in.; 64.1 by 87.0 cm

framed: 34 ⅞ by 44 ⅜ in.; 88.6 by 112.7 cm

Possibly anonymous sale, Amsterdam, van der Schley, van Amstel, and Yver, 14 August 1793, lot 23;

Possibly where acquired by "De Vry," for 121 florins;

Possibly anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Feitama, 2 April 1794, lot 16;

Possibly where acquired by Jan Spaan (circa 1742-1828), Amsterdam, for 110 florins;

Anonymous sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 17 June 1910, lot 6;

Where acquired by "Gerfaud," for 28,000 francs;

With J. Depret, Paris, by 1912;

Possibly with Frederik Muller & Cie, Amsterdam;

Acquired by Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach (1870-1950), Villa Hügel, Essen, 1914, for 50,000 marks;

Thence by descent to his son, Alfried von Bohlen und Halbach (1907-1967), Villa Hügel, Essen;

Thence by descent to his son, Arndt Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach (1938-1986), Palm Beach;

By whose estate sold ("The Property from the Estate of Arndt Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach"), New York, Christie's, 13 January 1987, lot 135;

Where acquired by a private collector, New York;

By whom sold ("Property of a Distinguished Private Collector "), New York, Sotheby's, 30 January 2019, lot 61;

Where acquired by the late collector.

Essen, Folkwang-Museum, Holländische Landschaftsmalerei des 17. Jahrhunderts: Werke aus niederrheinischem Museums- und Privatbesitz, 22 January - 20 February 1938, no. 3 (lent from a private collection);

New York, National Academy of Design, Dutch and Flemish Paintings From New York Private Collections, 1988, no. 11 (lent from a private collection);

Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Toledo Museum of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mirror of Empire: Dutch Marine Art of the Seventeenth Century, 23 September 1990 - 11 August 1991, no. 12 (lent from a private collection, New York).

C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. VII, London 1923, p. 173, cat. no. 59;

Holländische Landschaftsmalerei des 17. Jahrhunderts: Werke aus niederrheinischem Museums- und Privatbesitz, exhibition catalogue, Essen 1938, n.p., cat. no. 3;

M. Russell, Jan van de Cappelle: 1624/6-1679, Leigh-on-Sea 1975, p. 69, cat. no. 59;

A.J. Adams, in Dutch and Flemish Paintings from New York Collections, E. Haverkamp-Begemann (ed.), exhibition catalogue, New York 1988, p. 43, cat. no. 11, reproduced p. 28;

G.S. Keys, in Mirror of Empire: Dutch Marine Art of the Seventeenth Century, exhibition catalogue, G.S. Keys (ed.), Cambridge 1990, pp. 108-110, cat. no. 12, reproduced.