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拍品 17THE PRIVATE COLLECTION OF A NEW YORK ANTIQUARIAN
HENDRICK JACOBSZ. DUBBELS (AMSTERDAM 1621-1707)
Ships in a calm at sunset
已结束2022年10月7日
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USD 120,000–180,000
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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).
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).