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The Battle of Livorno (Leghorn)
Also titled De zeeslag bij Livorno
Willem van de Velde (I) (Leiden, 1611–1693)
c. 1659 - c. 1699
- Medium
- panel, ink
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 114 cm x width 160 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Adult profiles and older: its museum's description or title mentions violence, death or gore. How works are placed
About this work
In 1653 the English ship the Samson went up in flames off the coast of Italy after an encounter with Cornelis Tromp’s warship the Halve Maan. Van de Velde represented both vessels at the centre of this pen painting. Tromp commissioned the picture to honour and glorify himself. The work is still in its original frame with the Tromp family coat of arms.
