Adriaan van der Cabel

Charles Ferdinand, Duc de Berry (1778-1820);
Galerie du Palais de L'Elysée, sold Paris, Paillet, 4-6 April 1837, lot 25 (as by Jan van Goyen with incorrect dimensions) FF. 1,410 to Harris Jones;
Cromartie, 4th Duke of Sutherland (1851-1913), Stafford House, London, by 1910;
Sold by the Trustees of the above, London, Christie's, 24th November 1961, lot 66 (as Jan van Goyen) 13,000 guineas to Hamilton;
Colonel S.J.L. Hardie of Ballathie, Perthshire, his deceased sale, London, Sotheby's, 3 December 1969, lot 74 (as Jan van Goyen but corrected to Kabel);
With Hoogsteder, the Hague, by 1973;
Mahmoud S. Rabbani, his sale, London, Sotheby's, 11th April 1990, lot 103;
Re-offered, London, Sotheby's, 12th December 1990, lot 90, where acquired by the present owners.

London, Christie's, Exhibition of Pictures for sale by private treaty in the collection of the Duc de Berry, 1834, no. 6.

Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower, Stafford House, London, 1910, reproduced;
H. Mireur, Dictionaire des ventes d'Art, 1911, vol. III, p. 341;
C. Hofstede de Groot, Catalogue raisonné... , vol. VIII, London, 1927, p. 222, no. 876 (with incorrect measurements);
H.U. Beck, Jan van Goyen, Doornspijk 1972, vol. II, p. 544;
L. J. Bol, The Netherlandish Marine Painters of the 17th Century, Braunschweig 1973, p. 162, fig. 165;
Oude Meesters in de Verzameling M.S. Rabbani, Wassenaar 1981, no.5;
Old Masters from the Collection of Mahmoud S. Rabbani, Wassenaar 1983, pp. 42-46;
H.U. Beck, Kunstler um Jan van Goyen, Doornspijk 1991, p. 217, no. 592, reproduced

The canvas has been relined and this hasn't overly flattened the paint surface. The paint surface is clean with some areas of thinness in the waterfront and trees centre left. Strengthenings have been made to the darker tones of the painting, for example in the foreground, the building and in the darker regions of the sky. The latter in particular seem to have been applied partly due to the paint being applied thinly originally rather than in response to aggressive abrasion. No major damages are visible to the naked eye, but UV light reveals an old, restored, diagonal tear of approximately 8cm. in length above and to the left of the building, and furthermore a small restored hole, approximately 1 by 2cm. to the right of this. Overall the painting is clean, in good condition and the colours remain vibrant. Offered in an ornate gilt wood and plaster frame in good condition, if a little rubbed.
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