Sailboats in a Breeze

between 1655 and 1660

School of Jan van de Capelle Dutch, 1626-1679

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About the Artwork

Title Sailboats in a Breeze

Artwork Date between 1655 and 1660

Artist School of Jan van de Capelle

Life Dates 1626-1679

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 canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 25 1/8 × 30 1/4 inches (63.8 × 76.8 cm) Framed: 33 1/2 × 38 5/8 × 3 1/2 inches (85.1 × 98.1 × 8.9 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb

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. 41.6

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Signed Signed, lower center: J V Capelle

Provenance

collection Sir Upton Grenville Smythe, Bart.;
collection of John Ward (Blackburn, Lancaster, England);
by late 1936 or 1937, purchased by Anthony Reyre (New York, New York, USA);
(Schaeffer Galleries, New York, New York, USA);
1941-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA) with gift of funds from Mr. & Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb

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Published References

Masterpieces of Art from European and American Collections: European Paintings from the Two World's Fairs of 1939. DIA. Detroit, April 1-May 31, 1941, p. 4, cat. 7, (repr.) [lent by the Schaeffer Galleries, NYC].

Valentiner, W. R. "Jan Van de Cappelle," The Art Quarterly, vol. 4 (1941): pp. 272-296, esp. pp. 276-277, (fig. 1).

Five Centuries of Marine Painting. DIA. Detroit, 1942, cat. 25.

Richardson, E. P., ed. Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 20, no. 452 [as Jan van de Cappelle].

Grand Rapids, Grand Rapids Art Gallery, "

Old Masters from Midwestern Museums. Exh. cat., Grand Rapids Art Gallery. Grand Rapids, December 1948-January 2, 1949.

Northern European Masters. Exh. cat., Birmingham Museum of Art, High Museum of Art, Isaac Delgado Museum, Hunter Gallery of Art. Birmingham, Atlanta, New Orleans, Chattanooga, November 30-December 29, 1952, vol. 2, cat. 2.

Richardson, E. P. Catalogue of the Whitcomb Gifts. DIA. Detroit, 1954, p. 11.

Of Ships and the Sea. Exh. cat., Vancouver Art Gallery. Vancouver, B.C., November 1 -December 1, 1963, cat. 1, (repr.).

Moore, Andrew W. Dutch and Flemish Painting in Norfolk. Exh. cat., Norfolk Museums Service. Norfolk, 1988, p. 128, cited under cat. 84, footnote 3.

Keyes, George S., et al. Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 54-55, no. 18 (ill.).

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school of Jan van de Capelle, Sailboats in a Breeze, between 1655 and 1660, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb, 41.6.