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
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Literature

• Glück, Gustav. La Collection del Monte. Vienna, 1928: 21
• Sutton 1986, 306.
• Goedde, Lawrence Otto. "Convention, Realism, and the Interpretation of Dutch and Flemish Tempest Painting." Simiolus 16 (1986): 142.
• Goedde, Lawrence Otto. Tempest and Shipwreck in Dutch and Flemish Art: Convention, Rhetoric, and Interpretation. University Park, Pennsylvania, 1989: 177, 202-204, fig. 161.
• Keyes, George S. Mirror of Empire: Dutch Marine Art of the Seventeenth Century. Exh. cat. Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Toledo Museum of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Minneapolis, 1990: no. 4.
• Walsh, John. "Los Angeles--Dutch Marine Art." Review of 1990 exhibition organized by Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The Burlington Magazine 133 (September 1991): 645-646.
• Wheelock, Jr., Arthur K. Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1995: 15-18, color repro. 17.

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