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On the left is a ship, in starboard-broadside view, running before the storm in a heavy sea. Her main and mizzen yards are lowered and the fore course is clewed up on a half-lowered yard but not furled, leaving a little bit of sail. Her fore topmast has been struck and she seems to have lost her bowsprit, and the forestay has been cut away. She has Dutch pennants at the fore and the mizzen although the staff for a flag at the main is bare. In the right distance there is another ship before the wind under a fore course with the sheets let fly. The central area of the painting is bathed in brilliant light to contrast with the darkness of the storm clouds on the right. Shafts of light run diagonally from the right behind the main ship and light its sail, the tops of the waves and the tips of the masts of the ship on the right.
Title
A Dutch Ship Scudding Before a Storm
Date
c.1690
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 57.1 x W 73.6 cm
Accession number
BHC0905
Work type
Painting