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.

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.

Salzburg / Münster 1972–1973, unnumbered;

Rotterdam 1973, unnumbered;

Rotterdam 2008, no. 74.

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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.