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The painting depicts a seascape from an elevated perspective, showing a low horizon line with large ships sailing on the water. In the center is the largest ship, with four sails and several colorful flags, including one with horizontal stripes of red, white, and blue, and one large golden flag with a red animal that looks like a lion. Countless small people are on the deck of this boat, with some climbing ropes to get to the different sails. In the background are other ships, with a few smaller sailboats and one rowboat. On the horizon are the indistinct blue outlines of buildings on a…
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A Fleet at Sea

Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom (Dutch, 1566 - 1640)

1614

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
unframed: 56.5 x 97.1 cm (22 1/4 x 38 1/4 in.)
Culture
Haarlem
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Gift of Albert and Madzy Beveridge
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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