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A Storm off the Dutch Coast

Image credit: Manchester Art Gallery

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A stormy windswept seascape with a wooden jetty in the middle distance to the right. Tiny figures on the jetty can be seen behind the rough upright wooden posts which form its edge. The figures point towards the sea, possibly to the sailing boat with a brown sail in the distance to the left, which has been blown down at a sharp angle. Or it might be that they are pointing to the vessels also caught by the strong winds, which lie behind it, including a large man o' war, on the far horizon, to the right. Behind the figures on the jetty a ship's mast can be seen, alongside a post with small horizontal pieces and a round cage-like structure on top: this is a beacon, which is fixed to the jetty with angled supports. The scene, painted mainly in greys and blues, is dominated by heavy dark clouds moving across the sky and white foaming waves breaking over rocks and wooden stakes in the foreground to the right.
Title

A Storm off the Dutch Coast

Date

1660–1670

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 85.3 x W 100.4 cm

Accession number

1955.124

Acquisition method

gift from the National Art Collections Fund, 1955

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

Signed brc : Ruisdael

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