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Heemskerck and Barents Planning their Second Expedition to the Far North
Also titled Heemskerck en Barents bereiden hun tweede expeditie naar het Noorden voor
Christoffel Bisschop (Leeuwarden, 1828–1904)
1862
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 63.4 cm x width 82 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Scato Gockinga Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
The overwintering of Willem Barents and his crew on Nova Zembla in 1596-1597 appealed greatly to the popular imagination in the 19th century. This painting was therefore also part of the same historical gallery as the work by Bilders. Curiously, Bisschop did not depict the harsh winter ordeal on Nova Zembla, but rather the preparations for an earlier voyage.
