Fishing Boats in a Calm

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

1651

Jan van de Cappelle
Dutch, 1626–1679

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Jan van de Cappelle
Title: Fishing Boats in a Calm
Place: Netherlands (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1651
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Inscribed, lower right: J. v Cappelle 1651
Dimensions: 57.6 × 71.2 cm (22 11/16 × 28 in.)
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
Reference Number: 1933.1068
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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.

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.

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) and later to his widow, Helena Troubetskoi, Pratolino, near Florence; his sale, Pillet, San Donato, March 15–April 10, 1880, lot 1071, bought in; 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; the picture was in Ryerson’s private collection and intermittently on loan to the Art Institute by 1894; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.

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