Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings Signed (lower left): W.V.V.
Gallery Label In 1672 the artist and his father, Willem van de Velde the Elder, moved from Amsterdam to England, where they were awarded pensions from Charles II and the duke of York. This picture dates from the early Dutch period, about 1665, but it is already remarkably mature in its balance between meticulous draftsmanship and broad effects of daylight and atmosphere.
Provenance ?J. B. Horion, Brussels (until his d.; his estate sale, Brussels, September 1ff., 1788, no. 170, for 196 florins to Pauwels); ?François Pauwels, Brussels (1788–1803; his estate sale, Brussels, August 22, 1803, no. 111, for 7,100 florins); ?Gerrit Muller, Amsterdam and Brussels (until 1827; his sale, April 2, 1827, no. 73, for fl. 6,476 to Nieuwenhuys); ?Chrétien J. Nieuwenhuys, Brussels (1827–33; his sale, Christie's, London, May 10–11, 1833, no. 121, as "The Entrance of a Port in Holland," for 710 gns., bought in); ?Captain Octavius Henry Cyril Vernon Harcourt, London (by 1834–at least 1843); or Richard Foster, Clewer Manor, Windsor, Berkshire (until d. 1830); his son, Edmund Foster, Clewer Manor (1830–d. 1862); his son, Edmund Benson Foster, Clewer Manor (until 1862–76; sale, collection of the late Richard Foster, Christie's, London, June 3, 1876, no. 11, as "A Calm," for £2,062.10 to Samuels); William K. Vanderbilt, New York (until d. 1920; bought for £6,000)
Exhibition History New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Landscape Paintings," May 14–September 30, 1934, no. 27.
Providence. Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. "Masterpieces of Dutch Painting," December 11, 1938–January 25, 1939, no catalogue.
Detroit Institute of Arts. "Thirty-Eight Great Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," October 2–October 28, 1951, no catalogue.
Art Gallery of Toronto. "Thirty-Eight Great Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," November 14–December 12, 1951, no catalogue.
Seattle Art Museum. "Thirty-Eight Great Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," March 1–June 30, 1952, no catalogue.
City Art Museum of St. Louis. "Thirty-Eight Great Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," January 6–February 4, 1952, no catalogue.
Austin, Tex. City Coliseum. "Texas Fine Arts Festival: Metropolitan Museum $1,000,000 Collection of Old Masters," April 18–26, 1953, unnum. checklist.
Milwaukee Auditorium. "Metropolitan Art Museum $1,000,000 Masterpiece Exhibition," March 7–14, 1953, unnumbered cat.
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 C. J. Nieuwenhuys. A Review of the Lives and Works of Some of the Most Eminent Painters: With Remarks on the Opinions and Statements of Former Writers . London, 1834, pp. 254–55, no. 61.A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters . 6, London, 1835, pp. 354–55, no. 125.De levens en werken der Hollandsche en Vlaamsche kunstschilders, beeldhouwers, graveurs en bouwmeesters . 3, Amsterdam, 1843, p. 161.Times (June 5, 1876), p. 12 [reprinted in George Redford, "Art Sales," London, 1888, vol. 1, p. 247].Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 15 (December 1920), p. 268.A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century . 7, London, 1923, p. 79, no. 283.Dutch Painting in the Seventeenth Century . Providence, 1938, unpaginated, pl. 58 [corresponds to Exh. Providence 1938–39].Van de Velde: A Catalogue of the Paintings of the Elder and the Younger Willem van de Velde . Greenwich, 1990, vol. 1, pp. 416–18, no. 29, ill.Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art . New York, 2007, vol. 2, pp. 863–65, no. 201, colorpl. 201.Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 65 (Summer 2007), pp. 37–38, fig. 44 (color).
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