About the Artwork
Calm Sea
ca. 1660
Willem van de Velde the Younger
1633-1707
Dutch
Unknown
Oil on oak panel
Unframed: 5 1/4 × 7 inches (13.3 × 17.8 cm) Framed: 9 1/4 × 11 1/8 × 2 inches (23.5 × 28.3 × 5.1 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of James E. Scripps
89.48
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, lower right: W.V.V.
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Provenance
collection of Baroness Tuyll van Serooskerken [born Pagniet] (Netherlands)
July 26, 1836, auctioned (Stevens, Utrecht, Netherlands), lot 34
purchased by de Gruyter. 1867, collection of J. E. Fordham (London and Melbourn Bury, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom). collection of James E. Scripps [1835-1906] (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1889-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Smith, J. Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters. [Supplement], 1842, no. 13.
Catalogue of the Scripps Collection. DMA. Detroit, 1889, no. 70, [as William van de Velde].
"The Scripps Old Masters," The Collector 2, no. 13 (May 1, 1891): pp. 149-152, p. 152 [as by William van der Veld, “A Marine View”].
Scripps, James E. Handbook of the Paintings Ancient and Modern, Belonging to the Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit, 1895, p. 33, no. 60 [as by William van der Veld, the Younger, “A Marine View”].
Handbook of Paintings by the Old Masters. DMA. Detroit, 1910, p. 42, no. 60.
Hofstede de Groot, C. Beschreibendes und Kritisches Verzeichnis der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts. Paris/Esslingen, 1918, vol. 7, p. 56, no. 189.
Burroughs, C. Catalogue of paintings, sculpture and contemporary arts and crafts. DIA. Detroit, 1920, p. 60. no. 57.
Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 236, (repr.).
Five Centuries of Marine Painting. Exh. cat, DIA. Detroit, March 6-April 5, 1942, pp. 13-14, cat. 33.
Richardson, E. P, ed. Catalogue of Paintings. DIA. Detroit, 1944, p.138, no. 236.
Robinson, M. S. The Paintings of the Willem van de Veldes. Greenwich/London, 1990, two vols., vol. 1, pp. 421-422, no. 20, (repr.) [as likely a copy by a good 18th century copyist].
Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 234-235 [entry by G. S. Keyes].
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Willem van de Velde the Younger, Calm Sea, ca. 1660, oil on oak panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of James E. Scripps, 89.48.
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