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image of Ships in Distress off a Rocky Coast
Ludolf Backhuysen (artist)
Dutch, 1631 - 1708
Ships in Distress off a Rocky Coast, 1667
oil on canvas
Overall: 114.3 x 167.3 cm (45 x 65 7/8 in.) framed: 147.3 x 146.1 x 6.4 cm (58 x 57 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.)
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
1985.29.1
From the Tour: Dutch Landscapes and Seascapes of the 1600s
Object 2 of 8

1928Glück, Gustav. La Collection del Monte. Vienna, 1928: 21
1986Sutton 1986, 306.
1986Goedde, Lawrence Otto. "Convention, Realism, and the Interpretation of Dutch and Flemish Tempest Painting." Simiolus 16 (1986): 142.
1989Goedde, Lawrence Otto. Tempest and Shipwreck in Dutch and Flemish Art: Convention, Rhetoric, and Interpretation. University Park, Pennsylvania, 1989: 177, 202-204, fig. 161.
1990Keyes, 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.
1991Walsh, John. "Los Angeles--Dutch Marine Art." Review of 1990 exhibition organized by Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The Burlington Magazine 133 (September 1991): 645-646.
1995Wheelock, 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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