Calm Sea

ca. 1660

Willem van de Velde the Younger Dutch, 1633-1707

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About the Artwork

Title Calm Sea

Artwork Date ca. 1660

Artist Willem van de Velde the Younger

Life Dates 1633-1707

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Dutch

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on oak panel

Dimensions 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)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of James E. Scripps

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 89.48

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Signed Signed, lower right: W.V.V.

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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Published References

Smith, J. Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters. 1842, no. 13 [supplement].

Catalogue of the Scripps Collection. 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. Detroit, 1910, p. 42, no. 60.

Hofstede de Groot, C. Beschreibendes und Kritisches Verzeichnis der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII, vol. 7. Jahrhunderts. Paris/Esslingen, 1918, p. 56, no. 189.

Burroughs, C. Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Contemporary Arts and Crafts. 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, 1942, pp. 13-14, cat. 33.

Richardson, E.P., ed. Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 138, no. 236.

Robinson, M. S. The Paintings of the Willem van de Veldes, 2 vols. Greenwich/London, 1990, 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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