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Gallery LabelThe influential marine painter Simon de Vlieger lived in Rotterdam and Delft before settling in Amsterdam about 1638. His silvery seascapes, like this one of about 1645–50, made a great impression upon Jan van de Cappelle (who owned nine paintings and over thirteen hundred drawings drawings by De Vlieger) and Willem van de Velde the Younger.

Provenance[Frederik Müller, Amsterdam, until 1906; sold to MMA]

Exhibition History

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Hudson-Fulton Celebration," September–November, 1909, no. 141.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 18, 2007–January 6, 2008, no catalogue.

References

Roger Fry. Letter to his wife, Helen Fry. November 12, 1906 [published in Ref. Sutton 1972, vol. 1, letter no. 203, p. 273].

Wilhelm R. Valentiner. The Hudson-Fulton Celebration: Catalogue of an Exhibition Held in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1909, vol. 1, p. 142, no. 141, ill. opp. p. 142.

Joseph Breck. "L'art hollandais à l'exposition Hudson-Fulton à New York." L'art flamand & hollandais 13, no. 2 (1910), p. 60 [published in Dutch in Onze Kunst 17 (February 1910), pp. 45–46].

Roger Fry. Letters of Roger Fry. New York, 1972, vol. 1, p. 273 n. 2 to letter 203 (November 12, 1906).

Frances Spalding. Roger Fry: Art and Life. Berkeley, 1980, p. 94.

John Pope-Hennessy. "Roger Fry and The Metropolitan Museum of Art." Oxford, China, and Italy: Writings in Honour of Sir Harold Acton on his Eightieth Birthday. London, 1984, p. 234.

Peter C. Sutton. A Guide to Dutch Art in America. Grand Rapids, Mich., 1986, p. 191.

Walter Liedtke. Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2007, vol. 2, pp. 918–20, no. 211, colorpl. 211.

Esmée Quodbach. "The Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 65 (Summer 2007), pp. 20, 28, fig. 19 (color).

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