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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Fishing Boats in a Calm
    Jan van de Cappelle. Fishing Boats in a Calm, 1651. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00000718

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    Fishing Boats in a Calm

    by Jan van de Cappelle

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed lower right: J. v Cappelle 1651

    Provenance

    Probably François Sallé, by 1817; his sale, Paillet, Paris, November 27, 1817, lot 5 for 101 francs to Benoist Montigneul [Burton Fredericksen kindly suggested the connection to this lot, based on the date of 1651; annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the British Library, copy in curatorial file]. J. Louis Miéville, London, 1878 [according to Hofstede de Groot 1923]. Presumably Prince Paul Demidoff (died 1885); offered, his sale, Florence, Pillet, Le Roy and Mannheim, March 15-April 10, 1880, lot 1071, engraved, bought in; by descent to Princess Demidoff (formerly Princess Lise Troubetzkoi), 1885; sold through Durand-Ruel, Paris, June 1890, as part of a group of Dutch and Flemish paintings, many from the Demidoff collection, with funds advanced by Martin A. Ryerson and other trustees of the Art Institute [annual report 1891]; the picture was in Ryerson’s private collection and intermittently on loan to the Art Institute by 1894; bequeathed to the Art Institute in 1933.

    Exhibition history

    London, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition, 1878, cat. 107. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Objects of Art Exhibited at the New Museum, January 1894, cat. 166. Toledo Museum of Art, Catalogue of The Inaugural Exhibition, 1912, cat. 214. Detroit Institute of Arts, Five Centuries of Marine Painting, March 6–April 5, 1942, cat. 26.

    Publications

    Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1894), p. 64, no. 166. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1913), p. 196, no. 2077. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1914), p. 207, no. 2077. Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture and Architecture (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1917), p. 163. Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings and Drawings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1920), p. 61. Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture and Paintings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1922), p. 70. Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, and Paintings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), p. 70. C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century Based on the Work of John Smith, vol. 7 (London: MacMillan, 1923), pp. 186–7, no. 110. Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), p. 159, no. 2012. Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), p. 179. W. R. Valentiner, “Jan van de Cappelle,” Art Quarterly 4 (1941), pp. 282, 287, fig. 12. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 67. Wolfgang Stechow, Dutch Landscape Painting of the Seventeenth Century (London: Phaidon, 1966), p. 117, fig. 231. Margarita Russell, Jan van de Cappelle, 1624/6–1679 (Leigh-on-Sea; F. Lewis, 1975), pp. 23–4, fig. 8. Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “‘A Finesse of the Crayon,’ Eighteenth-Century French Portraits in Pastel,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies: Old Masters at the Art Institute of Chicago 32, 2 (2006), p. 89 n. 3. Frederik J. Duparc, Golden: Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection, exh. cat. (Salem, Massachusetts: Peabody Essex Museum, 2011), pp. 113, 116, fig. 2, under cat. 15.

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Jan van de Cappelle (Dutch, 1626–1679)
    Date
    1651
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    57.6 × 71.2 cm (22 11/16 × 28 in.); Framed: 78.7 × 93.4 × 5.7 cm (31 × 36 3/4 × 2 1/4 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    oil on canvas
    Style
    17th Century
    Place
    Netherlands
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
    Accession no.
    1933.1068

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