View of Dordrecht from the North

(Sale, Amsterdam, 24 September 1777, no. 43);[1] Vermeulen.[2] (sale, Amsterdam, 11 July 1798, no. 38); Gruyter.[3] Samuel S. Scheikévitch [1842-1908], Moscow and Paris; (sale, Frederik Muller & Cie, Amsterdam, 30 April-2 May 1907, 1st day, no. 82, as _Vue de Dordrecht_). (Trotti & Co., Paris); half-share sold July 1908 to (M. Knoedler & Co., New York); purchased 22 December 1908 by William Andrews Clark [1839-1925], New York, as _Shipping Scene_;[4] bequest April 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art. [1] The early provenance through the 1907 sale is according to Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, _Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts_, 10 vols., Esslingen and Paris, 1907-1928: 8(1923): 19, no. 50. [2] The buyer’s name is in an annotated catalogue of the 1777 sale in the Frick Art Reference Library, New York; copy in NGA curatorial files. The buyer was possibly Cornelis Vermeulen (1732-1813), a Dordrecht art dealer, painter, illustrator, and copyist. [3] A copy from an annotated catalogue of the 1798 sale is in NGA curatorial files. The buyer was probably Willem Gruyter, Sr., a collector and dealer in Amsterdam. [4] The painting is stock number 11653 in the M. Knoedler & Co. Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Painting Stockbook 5, 1899 April – 1911 December, p. 160; Sales Book 9, 1907 May – 1912 January, p. 90; copies in NGA curatorial files.