The departure of the Dutch fleet from the Vlie Roadstead, 9 June 1645

WILLEM VAN DE VELDE THE ELDER

Leiden 1610/11-1693 London

A penschilderij (pen painting): pen and ink on oak panel prepared with a gesso ground, in the original early 17th century Dutch ripple profile frame with tropical hardwood veneer| 85 x 114.5 cm. (33 1/2 x 45 1/8 in.)
Signed lower right on a piece of driftwood ‘W V Velde’

Provenance
Charles Mannheim, Paris
By descent within the Mannheim collection, until 1913
Sale (Property from the heirs of Charles Mannheim), Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 14 March 1913, lotno. 22, to M. Ducrey for 3,000 Francs
Comte Pierre de Chavagnac (1883 – 1957), 9 Rue Jean Mermoz, Paris
By whom sold, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 15 March 1944, lotno. 14, to Jacques Normand Augustin for 215,000 Francs
Anonymous sale (‘Collection de Monsieur X’), Paris, Palais Galliera, 30 March 1963, lotno. 12 (as ‘Presumed view of Admiral Tromp’s Fleet, at Katwyk’), for 32,100 Francs, where acquired by
Private Collection, France, and by decent within the family, from whom acquired by
Private Collection, The Netherlands

Literature
M. Robinson, The paintings of the Willem van de Veldes: a catalogue of the paintings of the Elder and the Younger Willem van de Velde, 2 vols., Greenwich 1990, vol. I, pp. 49-50, cat. no. 290
J. van der Vliet, Willem Van de Velde & Son, exh. cat., Bussum 2021, pp. 14-15, cat.no. 7, p. 70, reproduced

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