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

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 51.1 x 94.6 cm (20 1/8 x 37 1/4 in.) ; framed: 70.8 x 113.7 x 5.7 cm (27 7/8 x 44 3/4 x 2 1/4 in.)
Culture
Dutch
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Fund given in honor of Derald Ruttenberg’s Grandchildren
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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