Salute on a Calm Sea

Item

Creator

Studio of Willem van de Velde the Younger (1633 - 1707)

Title

Salute on a Calm Sea

Date

1696

Description

Oil on canvas
12 ½ x 18 ½ in. (c. 31.75 x 46.99 cm.)
Signed and indistinctly dated ‘W van de Velde 1696’ (lower left)

Provenance

Le Comte de Normand, Paris and Nice, and by descent to; a member of the Normand Family, Paris and Nice. [William Robert Drown (1920-1998), London, by January 1959, sold to]; J. Kaye, possibly 1959, sold back to; [William Robert Drown (1920-1998), London, sold to]; [Dealer, France]. [S.R. Mahla, Vaduz, Liechtenstein, by April 1963, consigned c. March-April 1963 to]; [Newhouse Galleries, New York, and Frederick Mont (Mondschein) (1894-1994), New York, sold April 1963 to]; Arthur William Sidney Herrington (1891-1970) and Nell C. Herrington (1891-1966), Indianapolis, Indiana, by inheritance to their son; Arthur Clarke Herrington (1931-2018), Maryland, to August 1978; Unidentified thieves stole the painting from Arthur C. Herrington, Cohasset, MA home; Police recovered and returned the painting August 1979 to; Arthur Clarke Herrington (1931-2018), Maryland, bequest 2018 to; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.[1]
[1] Refer to the curatorial/object file.

Exhibitions

1964 – Champaign, IL, Krannert Art Museum, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. A.W.S. Herrington of Indianapolis, Indiana, European and American Paintings and Graphic Art; European, American, and Oriental Decorative Arts, 27 September – 25 October 1964, no. 29, illus.

1968 – Indianapolis, IN, Art Association of Indianapolis, Herron Museum of Art, The Nell Clarke Herrington Memorial Exhibition, 7-28 April 1968, Bulletin/Catalogue, Spring 1968, p. 69, illus.

1968 – Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Civic and Cultural Center, Selections from the Herrington Collection, Inaugural Exhibition of the Arts Museum, 3-19 May 1968, no. 32, illus.

References

Newhouse Photo Advertisement for Willem van de Velde [Salute to a Calm Sea], The Connoisseur (March 1963): LVII.

Jolna, Stacy. “Boston Police Recover $2.5 Million in Stolen Art.” The Washington Post (16 August 1979).
M.S. Robinson. Van de Velde: A Catalogue of the Paintings of the Elder and the Younger Willem van de Velde. Vol. 2. London: National Maritime Museum; Gary Schwartz/SDU: 1990, pp. 645-6, no. 582.
Maremont, Mark, Ross Kerber and William M. Carley. “Antiques Dealer May Have Information About Art Theft.” The Wall Street Journal (30 August 1997).

Amore, Anthony M. and Tom Mashberg. Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011, pp. 111-3, 219.

The Getty Research Institute Photo Study Collection, Los Angeles, CA: 76.P.60, Renaissance to Modern, ND 644 Box 1185: DUTCH, VELDE, WILLEM VAN DE II (1633-1707): Paintings: Landscape—Seascape. Velde, Willem van de II, Salute on a Calm Sea. Photo (Duits Collection: from Newhouse Galleries March 1963).
According to M.S. Robinson. Van de Velde: A Catalogue of the Paintings of the Elder and the Younger Willem van de Velde. Vol. 2. London: National Maritime Museum; Gary Schwartz/SDU: 1990, pp. 645-6, no. 582: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Photograph, Negative R16/1. ‘Signed and dated on the back of the original canvas W.V. Velde J Ao 1696 (photograph at Greenwich, negative R16/1). Signed and dated indistinctly on a piece of wood on the shore lower left, probably in the same form as on the back.

Status

Under research