Hendrick de Meijer - Sailing Vessels and a Ferry on the Oude Maas River

Hendrick de Meijer
Rotterdam ca. 1620 – Rotterdam (?) after 1689/before 1698

Sailing Vessels and a Ferry on the calm Oude Maas River as seen from the North, with a View of Dordrecht and the Grote Kerk beyond

Signed and dated ‘H.D. M ... 16 . 9’ | Lower middle on the side of ferry
Oil on panel
H. 74 cm. W. 104 cm.

PROVENANCE
European noble collection | With collectors seal verso;
Private collection Mr. Gustave Rothan (1822 – 1890) | Paris;
His sale at Paul Chevallier ‘Tableaux anciens des écoles flamande, hollandaise, française, espagnole, italienne et allemande formant l'important collection de M.G. Rothan’ | Galerie Georges Petit | Paris | 29 May 1890 | Lot 25 (as by Aelbert Cuyp);
Private collection | Switzerland

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Beer, Gerlinde de (2019). The Golden Age of Dutch Marine Painting. The Inder Rieden Collection. Leiden: Primavera Pers, pp. 648-654;
Bernt, W. (1970). The Netherlandish Painters of the Seventeenth Century. Vol. II, New York: Phaidon, p. 78;
Bol, L.J. (1973). Die Holländische Marinemalerei des 17. Jahrhunderts. Braunschweig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, pp. 269-270;
Schadee, N. (1994). Rotterdamse meesters uit de Gouden Eeuw. Zwolle: Waanders, p. 288