LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

16.22 in. (41.20 cm.) (height) by 40.16 in. (102.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed lower right on the flag: VROOM, and dated lower centre on the small flag: 1630

Exhibited:

Amsterdam, Kunsthandel P. de Boer, Nederland water/land, 13 January - 19 February 1972, no. 55; Laren, Singer Memorial Foundation, Modernen van Toen, 15 June - 1 September 1963, no. 158.

Literature:

P.T.A. Swillens, 'Een gezicht op Scheveningen door Hendrick Cornelis Vroom', in Oud Holland, 49, 1932, pp. 60-2; R.G. de Boer, Modernen van Toen. 1570-1630. Vlaamse schilderkunst en haar invloed, exhibition catalogue, Laren 1963, p. 32, cat. no. 158; M. Russel, Visions of the Sea. Hendrick C. Vroom and the Origins of Dutch Marine Painting, Leiden 1983, p. 155, reproduced p. 157, fig. 138b; Ch. Dumas, Haagse stadsgezichten, 1550-1880. Topografische schilderijen van het Haags Historisch Museum, Zwolle 1991, p. 34, no. 34, reproduced.

Provenance:

With Nijstadt, The Hague, by 1952; Tahsin-van Bijlevelt, Vleuten; Centraal Museum, Utrecht, according to the 1963 catalogue of Laren (see Exhibited); With P. de Boer, Amsterdam, by 1972.