File:Bonaventura Peeters (I) - Sunlight on a Stormy Sea.jpg
Original file (1,351 × 971 pixels, file size: 416 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Captions
Summary edit
Bonaventura Peeters the Elder: Original caption: "Sunlight on a Stormy Sea" ( ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q605860 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Title |
Original caption: " Sunlight on a Stormy Sea " |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Object type |
painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description |
English: A ship is running before the wind, in port-broadside view, in a rough sea. She sails under fore-course and lateen mizzen, with figures visible on the deck and the main yard sent down to the gunwale. The vessel is almost engulfed by the turbulent, undulating waves. The painting is broadly treated in the Dutch realist style. While the grey palette evokes an impression of a storm. However both the ship and a bold stretch of water around it are illuminated fiercely by the rays of the sun which fall onto the surface of the sea from the right, the same direction as the wind. In the distance, on the left, the soft outline of another wallowing ship is visible. In the left foreground, a wooden spar floats above the churning water. While, on the right, two dolphins plough through the sea towards a barely concealed rock. The absence of any visible land, the rolling sky and murky water contribute towards the impression of turmoil and the powerlessness of the ships. Their powerlessness contrasts with the potency of the natural elements. This work may have been the painting lent by Sir Bruce Ingram as ‘Jan Porcellis’ to an exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1952–3. That work, titled ‘A Stormy Sea’, was apparently catalogued incorrectly as bearing a date of 1631 which is not visible in the present work. At an unknown later date, the painting was reattributed by Eric Palmer to Julius Porcellis and, as such, entered the Museum’s collection. An attribution to Bonaventura Peeters is much more tenable, especially if one compares it to Peeters’ ‘Dutch Ferry Boats in a Fresh Breeze’. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date | early 1640s | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medium | oil on oak wood | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions |
height: 17.7 cm (6.9 in); width: 24.1 cm (9.4 in) dimensions QS:P2048,17.7U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,24.1U174728 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q1199924 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current location |
London |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Accession number |
BHC0804 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/12296.html |
Licensing edit
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details. |
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 16:04, 18 October 2014 | 1,351 × 971 (416 KB) | Caravaggista (talk | contribs) | User created page with UploadWizard |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
The following 2 pages use this file:
Metadata
This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.
Pixel composition | RGB |
---|---|
Orientation | Normal |
Horizontal resolution | 72 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 72 dpi |