Ludolf Backhuysen

Ships in Distress off a Rocky Coast



Ludolf Backhuysen - Ships in Distress off a Rocky Coast



Ludolf Backhuysen
Ships in Distress off a Rocky Coast
1667
114.3 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



Ludolf Backhuysen The Spiegelpavillon yacht of Johan Maurits, Count of Nassau-Siegen
The Spiegelpavillon yacht of Johan Maurits, Count of Nassau-Siegen
c. 1671/72

Ludolf Bakhuysen Portrait of a man
Portrait of a man
1660 - 1708

Ludolf Backhuysen View of Emden from the island Nesserland
View of Emden from the island Nesserland
1698

Ludolf Backhuysen Paul's Shipwreck
Paul's Shipwreck
c. 1690/1700

Ludolf Backhuysen Ships before Amsterdam
Ships before Amsterdam
1665