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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1954.58
People
Simon de Vlieger, Dutch (Rotterdam 1600/1601 - 1653 Weesp)
Title
Ships in Distress on a Rocky Coast
Other Titles
Alternate Title: The Wreckers
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1630
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228517

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on cradled panel
Dimensions
41.4 x 63.5 cm (16 5/16 x 25 in.)
frame: 62 x 84 cm (24 7/16 x 33 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: S de Vlieger

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
E. M. Hayden, New Britain, CT, sold or consigned; to [Vose Galleries of Boston, Inc., Boston, MA] sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1954.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund
Accession Year
1954
Object Number
1954.58
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990)
  • Susan Donahue Kuretsky, Time and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art, exh. cat., Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY, 2005), repr. as fig. 130, p. 178, under no. 34

Exhibition History

  • Calming the Tempest with Peter Paul Rubens, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/22/2001 - 03/17/2002

Subjects and Contexts

  • Google Art Project

Related Works

Verification Level

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