Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg, R.A.
STRASBOURG 1740 - 1812 LONDON
A CALM: A HARBOUR SCENE, WITH FISHERMEN RESTING NEAR RUINS
Count Gustav Philip Creutz, Swedish Minister in Paris, by whom lent to the Paris Salon in 1767, and thus presumably acquired from the artist earlier that same year;
Sold or given to Gustaf Adolf Sparre when he visited Count Creutz in Paris in 1780, or following Creutz's return to Sweden in 1783;
Sparre inv. 1794, no. 53;
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 6 December 2007, lot 113 where acquired by the present owner.
Paris, Salon, 1767, part of no. 124 ('Un Calme').
Explications des Peintures, Sculptures et Gravures... (Catalogue of the Salon), Paris 1767, p. 26, under no. 124 (reprinted New York & London 1977);
G. Göthe, Tafvelsamlingen på Wanås, Stockholm 1895, p. 29, cat. no. 74 (as in the style of Claude-Joseph Vernet);
J. Seznec and J. Adhémar, Diderot Salons, vol. III, 1767, Oxford 1963, p. 35;
I. Hasselgren, Konstsamlaren Gustaf Adolf Sparre, 1746-1794. Hans studieresa, vaaning och konstsamling i Goeteborg, Goeteborg 1974, pp. 118, 121 and 127, reproduced p. 192;
P. Sanchez, Dictionnaire des Artistes exposant dans les Salons à Paris et en Provence, Dijon 2004, vol. II, p. 1109.