Simon de Vlieger

Dutch, 1600/1601 - 1653

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Clouds surge across a steel-blue sky over a gently rippling body of water in this horizontal landscape painting. The horizon comes a quarter of the way up the composition and the water in the bottom quarter is painted with shades of slate blue and gray with pearl-white highlights where the low sun skims across the surface. A rowboat to the left is piled with barrels and six men. A masted sailboat is moored on a sandbar to the right, leaning sharply away from us as three men tend to the hull. Dark gray smoke billows from a flickering orange flame under a long-legged pot farther back on the sandbar. A pier-like structure constructed with thick, weathered logs juts out of the water along the right edge of the composition. One long pole with a barrel impaled on the end reaches more than halfway up the painting. White smoke curls around a three-masted ship farther out in the water, beyond the sandbar, and at least nine sails dot the distant horizon to the left. Sunlight streaks vertically from behind a screen of clouds in the top left corner of the composition, and puffy, pale gray clouds pile against a pale blue sky in the right two-thirds of the painting.
Simon de Vlieger, Estuary at Day's End, c. 1640/1645, oil on panel, Patrons’ Permanent Fund and The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund in memory of Kathrine Dulin Folger, 1997.101.1

Estuary at Day's End

Simon de Vlieger · c. 1640/1645 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  1997.101.1

Simon de Vlieger, In the Hague Woods, black chalk with gray wash heightened with white on blue laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1987.32.1

In the Hague Woods

Simon de Vlieger · · black chalk with gray wash heightened with white on blue laid paper ·  Accession ID  1987.32.1

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River Landscape

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Friedrich Christoph Dietrich, Christian Josi · published 1821 · chalk manner and aquatint with roulette printed in black ink ·  Accession ID  1974.6.2.39

Bibliography

1753

  • Houbraken, Arnold. De Groote Schouburgh der Nederlantsche Konstschilders en Schilderessen. 3 vols. in 1. The Hague, 1753 (Reprint: Amsterdam, 1976): 2:325-326.

1893

  • Rijsewijk, P. Haverkorn van. "Simon Jacobsz. De Vlieger." Oud-Holland 11 (1893): 229-235.

1939

  • Knoef, Jan. "Jacob van Walscapelle." Oud Holland 56 (1939): 261-264.

1942

  • Martin, Wilhelm. Rembrandt en zijn tijd: onze 17e eeuwsche schilderkunst in haren bloetijd en nabloei. Vol. 2 of De Hollandsche Schilderkunst in de Zeventiende Eeuw. 2nd ed. Amsterdam, 1942: 264-266.

1971

  • Kelch, Jan. "Studien zu Simon de Vlieger als Marinemaler." Ph.D. dissertation, Freie Universität Berlin, 1971.

1974

  • Preston, Colonel Rupert. Seventeenth-Century Marine Painters of the Netherlands. Leigh-on-Sea, 1974: 60-63.

1987

  • Sutton, Peter C., et al. Masters of 17th-century Dutch Landscape Painting. Exh. cat. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Philadelphia Museum of Art. Boston, 1987: 511-512.

1990

  • Keyes, George S. MIrror of Empire: Dutch Marine Art of the Seventeenth Century. Exh. cat. Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Toledo (Ohio) Museum of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1990-1991. Cambridge, England, 1990: 424-425.

1996

  • Giltaij, Jeroen, and Jan Kelch. Praise of Ships and the Sea: The Dutch Marine Painters of the 17th Century. Exh. cat. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Staatliche Museum zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie im Bodemuseum. Rotterdam, 1996: 181-182.