17th-century Dutch Painting Attributed To Cornelis Bol (1589–1666) In Its Original Frame

Attributed to Cornelis Bol (Antwerp 1589 – 1666 Haarlem)

Shipping in a Calm near a Coast

Oil on panel, oval, 39.5 x 53 cm

Contained in presumably the original Dutch 17th-centuryframe, octagonal with oval slip, outer dimensions 58 x 71 cm

Provenance
Anonymous sale, Sotheby’s Mak van Waay, 18 November 1985,lot 49, as ‘circle of G. Pompe’

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This marine is still contained in its original 17th-centuryframe with ripple mouldings, which is highly unusual, as Dutch paintings fromthis period very rarely survive in their original frames. However, paintings onoval supports have higher rates of survival for original frames, as they areconsiderably more complicated to replace.

When this painting appeared at auction at Sotheby’sAmsterdam in 1985, it was catalogued as coming from the circle of Gerrit Pompe.On the basis of the photograph that was taken then, Dr Christina Wansink of theRKD in The Hague attributed it to Cornelis Bol.

Cornelis Bol was born in Antwerp and married there in 1616to Susanna de Momper, a member of that celebrate family of artists. By 1624they had moved to Paris, where they joined the Calvinist community, and in1635-36 they lived in Londen. By 1637 they were living in Haarlem, here theyremained for the rest of his life.

Good condition for the age, a few scratches to the frame, asis usual.