Lot Essay
We are grateful to Dr. Jan Kelch of the Staatlichen Museen, Berlin for confirming the attribution on the basis of a colour transparency.
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A fishing boat and a rowing boat in choppy waters, a Dutch three-master in the distance
Details
Jan Porcellis (Ghent 1580/84-1632 Zouterwoude)
A fishing boat and a rowing boat in choppy waters, a Dutch three-master in the distance
remnants of signature (lower left, on the driftwood)
oil on panel
46.1 x 71.4 cm.
A fishing boat and a rowing boat in choppy waters, a Dutch three-master in the distance
remnants of signature (lower left, on the driftwood)
oil on panel
46.1 x 71.4 cm.
Provenance
Jules Porgès, Paris.
Anonymous Sale; Cassirer-Helbing, Berlin, 7 December 1926, lot 137, as 'Simon Jacobsz. de Vlieger'.
K.J. Müllenmeister, Solingen.
Acquired by the parents of the present owner in 1974.
Anonymous Sale; Cassirer-Helbing, Berlin, 7 December 1926, lot 137, as 'Simon Jacobsz. de Vlieger'.
K.J. Müllenmeister, Solingen.
Acquired by the parents of the present owner in 1974.
Literature
Holländische Meister des XVII. Jahrhunderts aus der Sammlung Jules Porès, Paris, illustrated.
K.J. Müllenmeister, Seestücke und Flusslandschaften niederldändischer Maler des 17. Jahrhunderts in privaten Sammlungen, Bremen, 1973, p. 21, illustrated.
K.J. Müllenmeister, Seestücke und Flusslandschaften niederldändischer Maler des 17. Jahrhunderts in privaten Sammlungen, Bremen, 1973, p. 21, illustrated.
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