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Painted in tones of beige, cream white, and pecan brown with hints of shell pink and faint blue, a few sailboats float in a calm body of water with a harbor and a town deep in the distance along the horizon, which comes about a quarter of the way up this painting. Rippling gently across the foreground, the water reflects the pale blue sky and blush pink of clouds above. To our left, two masted ships with sails furled have pulled up alongside each other. A smaller boat sails to our right and a few more are spaced sparsely along the waterway leading to the town. Painted as a dense forest of…

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Abraham de Verwer (Dutch, 1585 - 1650)

c. 1650 · oil on panel

National Gallery of Art · Fund given in honor of Derald Ruttenberg’s Grandchildren

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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