Ludolf Backhuysen
Ships in Distress off a Rocky Coast
1667114.3 x 167.3 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated, lower center on rock: LBackh / 1667
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Literature
Collection catalogues
Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century, Washington; New York and Oxford, 1995, pp. 14-18
Literature
Esmée Quodbach (ed.), Holland's Golden Age in America, University Park, Pennsylvania, 2014, fig. 73
Provenance
Arthur George, 3rd earl of Onslow (1777-1870), Richmond, and Clandon Park, near Guilford, Surrey
his heirs
his estate sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 22 July 1893, nr. 24
with J.W. Vokins
Siméon del Monte, Brussels, by 1928
sold by his heirs at sale, Sotheby's, London, 24 June 1959, nr. 22 to Colnaghi
with P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London
sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 19 April 1985, nr. 111, purchased by NGA
Other works by Ludolf Backhuysen
An extensive seascape with figures by a boat on a shore
1667
1667
View of Emden from the island Nesserland
1698
1698
Ships before Amsterdam
1665
1665
Paul's Shipwreck
c. 1690/1700
c. 1690/1700
The Dutch fleet with the Delfland, flagship of Michiel Adriaensz. de Ruyter, off the coast of Texel, 1665
1671
1671