Lot 168
  • 168

Hendrik Jacobsz. Dubbels

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
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Description

  • Hendrik Jacobsz. Dubbels
  • a moonlit coastal landscape with fishermen in the foreground
  • bears remains of a monogram lower right

  • oil on oak panel, in a carved and gilt wood frame

Provenance

Mevr. N.E. Mol van Charente, The Hague;
With Katz, Dieren, circa 1933 (as Jan van de Cappelle);
Dr. O. Hirschbaum, Amsterdam, 1935 (as Cappelle);
With Leonard Koetser, London, 1968, no. 12 (as Cappelle);
Acquired from the above by the late owner.

Exhibited

Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, November 1936, no. 26 (as Van de Cappelle).

Literature

W. Mautner, "Zwei Seltenheiten aus dem holländischen Kunsthandel," in Weltkunst, vol. 46, November 1935, p. 1, reproduced (as Cappelle);
M. Russell, Jan van de Cappelle, Norfolk 1975, p. 90, no. 18 ("Addenda to Hofstede de Groot's Catalogue Raisonné. Some pictures by or Attributed to Jan van de Cappelle not listed in Hofstede de Groot's catalogue");
U. Middendorf, Hendrik Jacobsz. Dubbels, Freren 1989, p. 147, no. 89, reproduced.

Condition

The flat, stable support consists of two horizontal panels bevelled along the lower, right and left hand margins. The panel join is supported by two dovetails. The paint surface is secure and in good condition, under a glossy varnish. Though there is some abrasion apparent in the sky and brown tones of the painting, the detail of the work is well-preserved. The panel join is visible to the naked eye due to some uneveness to the painting's surface and some discoloured retouchings along it. Inspection under UV light, though rather impeded by the aforementioned varnish, confirms these retouchings and further reveals extensive retouchings to the sky, and fairly extensive scattered spot retouchings to the foreground. The boats and figures are just slightly affected and much of the foreground beach seems to remain untouched. Offered in an ornate carved and gilt wood frame in good condition though slightly rubbed.
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Catalogue Note

We are grateful to Gerlinde de Beer for independently identifying this as the work of Hendrik Dubbels. According to Middendorf (see Literature), who dates the painting to 1654-58, it previously bore an Aert van der Neer signature.

Certain elements recur in other works by Dubbels: both the mussel collector and the ship to the left, for example, can be seen in the canvas in the Schlossmuseum, Gotha (Ibid., p. 93, no. 2).