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image of Ships in Distress off a Rocky Coast
Ludolf Backhuysen
Dutch, 1631 - 1708
Ships in Distress off a Rocky Coast, 1667
oil on canvas, 114.3 x 167.3 cm (45 x 65 7/8 in.)
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
1985.29.1
From the Tour: Dutch Landscapes and Seascapes of the 1600s
Object 2 of 8

Exhibition History

1932
Tentoonstelling van Schilderijen, Kunstzaal Kleykamp, The Hague, 1932, no. 41.
1990
Mirror of Empire: Dutch Marine Art of the Seventeenth Century, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts; The Toledo Museum of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1990-1991, no. 4.
2005
Time and Transformation in Dutch Seventeenth Century Art, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota; The Speed Art Museum, Louisville, 2005-2006, no. 34, repro.

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