English Warship Firing a Salute
1690
Maker Unknown
European Painting and Sculpture
English Warship Firing a Salute, 1690. Netherlands, 17th century. Oil on canvas; framed: 91 x 103 x 4 cm (35 13/16 x 40 9/16 x 1 9/16 in.); unframed: 63.7 x 77.5 cm (25 1/16 x 30 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin 1975.80 Van de Velde and his father picked up their lives in Amsterdam in 1672 and moved to England to paint for the king. Their paintings of the Royal Navy’s massive ships celebrated England’s power in war and trade.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 91 x 103 x 4 cm (35 13/16 x 40 9/16 x 1 9/16 in.); Unframed: 63.7 x 77.5 cm (25 1/16 x 30 1/2 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Front, lower center near edge, signed and dated in paint Reverse: top stretcher, stencil "360 V"; hand written in pencil "Left"; hand written in pencil (red) "18"; Vertical center bar: Label with hand written pencil "K.L Patterson"; hand written pencil " #5"; Signed lower center: "W. V. Velde J. 1690"; horizontal center bar: hand written w/grease pencil "10120".
- Departments
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1975.80
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin
- Exhibitions
- Re-presenting the Baroque, Gallery One 2012, Cleveland Museum of Art (02/03/1976 - 03/07/1976) "Year in Review" (cat. no. 63, illus. pp. 40), Cleveland Museum of Art (07/10/1973 - 09/02/1973) "Duch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century" (no catalogue), Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL (10/01/1997 - 04/19/1998) "Re-presenting the Baroque" (no catalogue), Art Institute of Chicago (10/20/2003 - 01/19/2004); Philadelphia Museum of Art (02/15/2004 - 05/30/2004); Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (06/18/2004 - 09/26/2004) "Manet and the Sea" (exh. cat. pp. 7, fig. 7)
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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