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A sage-green harbor teems with more than a dozen sailing ships and rowboats under a pale gray sky in this horizontal painting. The horizon comes about one-fifth of the way up the composition, and dark gray and white clouds tower above. Light filters onto the scene through the clouds from our left to fall across the ships while casting shadows on the water nearest us. Painted in tones of slate gray and warm brown, most of the ships closest to us have their sails furled so the masts and horizontal yard arms bristle against the sky. The larger ships have cannons poking out of square portholes.…
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Amsterdam Harbor Scene

Reinier Nooms, called Zeeman (Dutch, 1623 or 1624 - 1664)

c. 1654/1655

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 61 x 81.8 cm (24 x 32 3/16 in.) ; framed: 81.9 × 102.2 × 5.72 cm (32 1/4 × 40 1/4 × 2 1/4 in.)
Culture
Dutch
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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