PIETER MULIER | Fishing boats in a storm

With Rupert Preston Ltd., London, by 1966;

Anonymous sale, Vienna, Dorotheum, 29 November – 1 December 1967, lot 6 (as Abraham van Beyeren);

With Charles van der Heijden, Rotterdam;

F.C. Butôt, Sankt Gilgen, Austria, from whom acquired.

Salzburg / Münster 1972–1973, unnumbered;

Rotterdam 1973, unnumbered;

Rotterdam 2008, no. 74.

The SØR Rusche Collection has been exhibited extensively over the last two decades. Please click here for further information.

M. Roethlisberger, Cavalier Pietro Tempesta and his time, Delaware 1970, p. 88, reproduced fig. 53;

Salzburg / Münster 1972–1973, pp. 90-91, reproduced;

Rotterdam 1973, pp. 92–93, reproduced;

G.S. Keyes, 'Pieter Mulier the Elder' in Oud Holland, vol. 90, 1976, p. 236;

Bol 1982, p. 143, reproduced fig. 148;

B. Haak, The Golden Age: Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, Zwolle 2003, p. 246, reproduced fig. 516;

Raupp 2001, pp. 184–87, cat. no. 46, reproduced in colour;

Rotterdam 2008, p. 83, cat. no. 74, reproduced in colour.

This is a quintessential work by the Haarlem artist Pieter Mulier, whose strongly tonal sea pieces painted almost entirely in shades of grey are characterised by a warm pink ground.