About the Artwork
A Calm Sea
1642
Simon de Vlieger
1601-1653
Dutch
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Oil on oak panel
Unframed: 21 1/4 × 29 1/8 inches (54 × 74 cm) Framed: 25 7/8 × 33 5/8 × 2 3/4 inches (65.7 × 85.4 × 7 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of James E. Scripps
89.50
Public Domain
Markings
Signed and dated, lower right: S. de Vlieger | 1642
Provenance
February 9-11, 1889, (Christie's, London, United Kingdom) lot 20 [as A Calm on the Banks of the Meuse, signed and dated 1642];February 1889, Deacon [bought at Christie's sale for 54-12-00].
James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1889-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Catalogue of the Scripps Collection. Detroit, 1889, no. 41.
"The Scripps Old Masters." The Collector 2, no. 13 (May 1, 1891): pp. 149-152; p. 152 [as "A Calm on the Banks of the Meuse"].
Scripps, James E. Handbook of the Paintings Ancient and Modern Belonging to the Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit, 1895, p. 23.
Handbook of Paintings by the Old Masters. Detroit, 1910, pp. 31-32, no. 37.
Burroughs, C. Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Contemporary Arts and Crafts. Detroit, 1920, p. 63, no. 59.
Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, no. 243 (ill.).
Valentine, W.R. "Jan van de Cappelle." Art Quarterly 4 (1941): pp. 272-296 (fig. 6).
Five Centuries of Marine Painting. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1942, p. 12, no. 24.
Richardson, E.P., ed. Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 141, no. 243.
The Artist and the Sea. Exh. cat., Miami Art Center. Miami, 1969, no. 38.
Kelch, J. "Studien zu Simon de Vlieger als Marinemaler." Ph.D. diss., Frei Universität, Berlin, 1971, p. 161, no. 65.
Sutton, P.C. Dutch Art in America. Grand Rapids, 1986, p. 86 (fig. 122).
Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 240-241.
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Simon de Vlieger, A Calm Sea, 1642, oil on oak panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of James E. Scripps, 89.50.
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