Nederlands: Een Zeegezigt langs eene bergachtige Kust, vertoonende een' zwaren Storm met eene ondergaande Zon, met drie Schepen welke in gevaar zijn van te stranden
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BACKHUYSEN, Ludolf
(b. 1631, Emden, d. 1708, Amsterdam)
Ships Running Aground in a Storm
1690s
Oil on canvas, 173,5 x 341 cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
While Dutch primacy in merchant shipping offered high rewards, its risks were equally significant. On their long journeys to the Mediterranean, the New World, Africa, and the East, merchant vessels were perennially endangered by warfare, piracy, treacherous shores, and storms. Several painters, most dramatically Ludolf Backhuysen, specialized in ships adrift in tempests.
Backhuysen executed this painting (his largest surviving one) as if he were observing the disaster in the midst of the roiling seas, thus engaging beholders in the unfolding tragedy, encouraging them to empathize with the ships and their crews and to contemplate the powers of God, beyond full comprehension.
But even as such paintings acknowledge the fragility of Dutch seaborne success, their distant shafts of sunlight usually hold out hope for reversals of misfortune. A brighter future may still save Backhuysen's ship at left, its Dutch flag unfurled against lightening skies. Collectors occasionally hung a tempest painting opposite a sunny shipping scene, implying that the power of God and nature, whether terrifying or benevolent, is always magnificent.
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Author: BACKHUYSEN, Ludolf
Title: Ships Running Aground in a Storm
Time-line: 1651-1700
School: Dutch
Form: painting