Name: HENDRICK JACOBSZ. DUBBELS (AMSTERDAM 1621-1707)
Brand: Ships in a calm at sunset
Price: 120000.00 USD
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HENDRICK JACOBSZ. DUBBELS (AMSTERDAM 1621-1707)
Ships in a calm at sunset
with monogram 'JVC' (lower center)
oil on canvas
21¹⁄₂ x 29⁵⁄₈ in. (54.5 x 75.3 cm.)

Earl De La Warr, Sussex.
with Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris, as Jan van de Cappelle, by 1899.
Adolphe Schloss (1842-1910), Paris, and by inheritance to his wife,
Mathilde Haas (1858-1938), and by whom bequeathed to her children,
Maguerite, Lucien, Henry and Juliette Schloss, and by whom stored for safekeeping at Château de Chambon, Laguenne, 20 August 1939; transferred to the Banque de France, Limoges, 16 April 1943.
Seized by Vichy officials and German security agents at the Banque Jordaan, Château de Chambon, Laguenne, 16 April 1943, as ‘Jan van der Cappelle’ (Schloss 50); transferred to the Banque de France, Limoges, 24 April 1943; transferred to CCQJ headquarters, Paris, 11 August 1943, where it was earmarked for Hitler's planned museum in Linz (ERR no. Schloss 38); transported to the Jeu de Paume, Paris, 2 November 1943.
Transported for storage to the Führerbau, Munich, from where stolen, April 1945.
Recovered in Germany and restituted to the Schloss family in 1977.
with Otto Naumann, New York, from whom acquired in 1986 by,
Private collection, and by whom sold,
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 30 January 2019, lot 63, where acquired by the present owner.

The Fifth Hundred of Paintings by Old Masters belonging to the Sedelmeyer Gallery, Paris, 1899, pp. 8-9, no. 2, illustrated, as Jan van de Cappelle.
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonne of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, VII, London, 1923, p. 173, no. 62, as Johannes van de Cappelle.
Répertoire des biens spoliés en France durant la guerre 1939-1945, II, Berlin, 1947, p. 327, no. 7398, illustrated.
Die Weltkunst, 15 March 1952, p. 11, illustrated.
M. Russell, Jan van de Cappelle, 1624/6-1679, Leigh-on-Sea, 1975, p. 69, no. 62, under Appendix III.
U. Middendorf, Hendrik Jacobsz. Dubbels, Freren, 1989, pp. 33, 104, no. 25, illustrated.

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Beneath an iridescent late afternoon sky, fishermen have brought their boats ashore after a long day on the placid sea. In the central foreground, a man struggles with a rudder as he trudges his way through the shallows toward the shore. Other fishermen, some dressed in bright local colors, scurry about their small boats preparing for the following day’s activities. The artist clearly relished depicting the play of light created by the setting sun, most evident in the crystalline reflections of hulls and sails in the water’s mirror-like surface.

Dubbels, who specialized in marine paintings but also produced a handful of winter and moonlit landscapes, spent his entire career in his native Amsterdam. There, he worked with and for some of the preeminent marine painters of his day – Simon de Vlieger, Willem van de Velde I and Ludolf Bakhuizen – and developed close contacts with others, including Jan van de Cappelle and Willem van de Velde II. Dated by Ulrike Middendorf to circa 1653-57 (loc. cit.), this painting belongs to Dubbels’ best period, when he ranked alongside van de Cappelle and the younger van de Velde as one of Amsterdam’s leading marine painters. Van de Cappelle’s influence in this period proved particularly decisive and the two artists’ works can, at times, be difficult to separate (see, for example, the Ships at anchor in a quiet sea in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, which Middendorf gave to Dubbels [op. cit., p. 122, no. 54] but which has since been rehabilitated to van de Cappelle’s oeuvre). Indeed, the present painting long bore an attribution to van de Cappelle on account of the spurious monogram added to the driftwood at lower center.

Comparable paintings by Dubbels can be found in a number of public collections, including the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Schloss Wilhelmshöhe, Kassel (inv. no. GK 426) and the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen (inv. no. KMS3921). A nearly identical figure to the one seen in this painting’s central foreground features in another work by Dubbels of similar date in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (inv. no. SK-A-687).