Object data
oil on panel
support: height 43.4 cm × width 71.2 cm × thickness 1.3 cm
outer size: depth 7 cm (support incl. frame)
anonymous
A Sea-Going Vessel Sailing into an Inland Waterway
c. 1614 - c. 1630
Technical notes
The support consists of two horizontally grained oak panels and is bevelled on all sides. Dendrochronology has shown that the youngest heartwood ring was formed in 1595. The panel could have been ready for use by 1604, but a date in or after 1614 is more likely. The ground layer is white, and the paint layers were smoothly applied with a little impasto for the highlights.
Scientific examination and reports
- technical report: M. Chavannes, RMA, 10 June 2003
- dendrochronology: P. Klein, RMA, 9 June 2005
Condition
Poor. The support has a convex warp. There are numerous small losses in the paint and ground layers. The sky and other thinly painted areas are abraded. There are many discoloured retouchings in the sky, sails and sea. The varnish is too thin.
Conservation
- W. Hesterman, 1979 - 1980: discoloured varnish and overpainting removed; restoration not completed due to the poor condition of the painting
Provenance
...; collection Barbier, Nancy;1...; from A. Vecht & Co., Amsterdam, with two views of Naples by Gaspar Adriaansz van Wittel (SK-A-2659 and SK-A-2660), fl. 405, to the museum, 1913
Object number: SK-A-2661
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
This unsigned and undated panel shows a threemaster and a smack sailing on the unruffled surface of an inland waterway. It was long attributed to Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom before Bol rightly pointed out that it was too weak to be autograph.2 One possible alternative, on the evidence of the small figures and the background with a farmstead, a wood and a church spire, is an attribution to Aert Anthonisz. The background of his Ships off IJsselmonde (SK-A-1446) is somewhat comparable. However, the panel is in such poor condition as to make any attribution extremely difficult.
Everhard Korthals Altes, 2007
See Bibliography and Rijksmuseum painting catalogues
See Key to abbreviations and Acknowledgements
This entry was published in J. Bikker (ed.), Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, I: Artists Born between 1570 and 1600, coll. cat. Amsterdam 2007, no. 413.
Literature
Bol 1973, p. 28, note 64
Collection catalogues
1918, p. 427, no. 2606a (as Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom); 1934, p. 311, no. 2606a (as attributed to Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom); 1960, p. 335, no. 2606 A 2 (as attributed to Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom); 1976, p. 593, no. A 2661 (as attributed to Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom); 2007, no. 413
Citation
E. Korthals Altes, 2007, 'anonymous, A Sea-Going Vessel Sailing into an Inland Waterway, c. 1614 - c. 1630', in J. Bikker (ed.), Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.6505
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