Ships in a Stormy Sea off a Coast

Artist Ludolf Backhuysen Dutch, 1630–1708

Datecirca 1700–1705

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions59 5/8 x 91 1/8 in. (151.4 x 231.5 cm)
Frame: 71 x 102 3/4 in. (180.3 x 261 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest) and Arthur Leroy and Lila Fisher Caldwell, by exchange

Object number98.13

On View

On view

ProvenanceCreated Amsterdam, ca. 1700–1705. Gloucestershire Art College, Gloucestershire, England, before 1990; Atlantis Trust, by 1990; [consigned to Trafalgar Galleries, London]; sold to NCMA, 1998.Published References"Museum Acquires Five Important Works," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview and Calendar of Events (March/April 1999), 10-11, illus. (b-w).

"Art Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Annual Report (1998-99), 8, illus. (b-w) 33.

"La Chronique des Arts," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 1574 (March 2000), listed 88.

Gerlinde de Beer, Sein Leben und Werk: Ludolf Backhuysen (1630-1708) (Zwolle: Waanders Uitgevers, 2002), 150-151, illus. (b-w) 151.

"Objects of Desire: The Museum Collects, 1994-2004," Preview: The Magazine of the North Carolina Museum of Art (July/August 2004), mentioned and illus. (color detail) 5.

Dennis P. Weller, Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2009), cat. no. 3, illus. (color) 12, also mentioned xii.

Dennis P. Weller, entry for Ships in a Stormy Sea off a Coast, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 240, illus. (color) 241.

Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Objects of Desire: The Museum Collects, 1994-2004," July 18, 2004-February 27, 2005.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of History, "Knights of the Black Flag," December 7, 2009-January 3, 2010 (exhibition ran from March 6, 2009-January 3, 2010, but NCMA painting was only on view from December 7, 2009–January 3).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement

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