Tile Panel with a Herring Fleet
Also titled Tegeltableau met een haringvloot
Tegelbakkerij aan de Delftschevaart
c. 1700 - c. 1725
- Medium
- earthenware, tin glaze
- Classification
- tile tableau
- Dimensions
- height 155 cm x width 194 cm x thickness 5.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, 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
About this work
This tableau consisting of 180 tiles can rival any painting. The Rotterdam tile painter Cornelis Boumeester painted compositions in a range of blue tints. Amid the herring fleet is the Rotterdam, a warship, with the city's coat of arms on the stern, the rearmost part of the boat. Painted tiles with recognizable depictions were extremely popular as wall decoration in the Netherlands.
