Fishing Vessels Offshore in a Heavy Sea
On View In:
Gallery 309
Artist:   Ludolph Backhuysen  
Title:   Fishing Vessels Offshore in a Heavy Sea  
Date:   1684  
Medium:   Oil on canvas  
Dimensions:   25 1/2 x 38 1/2 in. (64.77 x 97.79 cm) (canvas) 33 1/8 x 46 1/2 x 2 3/4 in. (84.14 x 118.11 x 6.99 cm) (outer frame)  
Credit Line:   Gift of John Hawley, by exchange  
Location:   Gallery 309  

Artist/Creator(s)     
Name:   Backhuysen, Ludolph  
Nationality:   Dutch  
Life Dates:   Dutch, 1631 - 1708  
 

Object Description  
  
Inscriptions:   Signature and Date L (on spar in water): [L BACKH]; LC (on buoy): [1684] On verso: UL in white chalk: [E5975] UL MIA loan label: [L82.288 from Douwes] LL in graphite [t1/1  
Classification:   Paintings  
Physical Description:   Seventeenth-century Dutch Marine landscape with fishing boats in a rough sea.  
Creation Place:   Europe, Netherlands, , ,  
Accession #:   82.84  
Owner:   The Minneapolis Institute of Arts