Fishing Boats in a Calm

Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1894), p. 64, no. 166.

London, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition, 1878, cat. 107.

Probably François Sallé, by 1817

Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Objects of Art Exhibited at the New Museum, January 1894, cat. 166.

the picture was in Ryerson’s private collection and intermittently on loan to the Art Institute by 1894

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.

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.

Detroit Institute of Arts, Five Centuries of Marine Painting, March 6–April 5, 1942, cat. 26.

W. R. Valentiner, “Jan van de Cappelle,” Art Quarterly 4 (1941), pp. 282, 287, fig. 12.

bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.

Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), p. 179.

included in the group of paintings from the Demidoff collection sold to the Art Institute using funds advanced by four trustees including Martin A. Ryerson (died 1932), Chicago

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, 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.

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) and later to his widow, Helena Troubetskoi, Pratolino, near Florence

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, Paintings and Drawings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1920), p. 61.

Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture and Architecture (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1917), p. 163.

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, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1913), p. 196, no. 2077.

Toledo Museum of Art, Catalogue of The Inaugural Exhibition, 1912, cat. 214.

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

Margarita Russell, Jan van de Cappelle, 1624/6–1679 (Leigh-on-Sea; F. Lewis, 1975), pp. 23–4, fig. 8.

Wolfgang Stechow, Dutch Landscape Painting of the Seventeenth Century (London: Phaidon, 1966), p. 117, fig. 231.

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.