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Battle of Gibraltar in 1607
Also titled Slag bij Gibraltar in 1607
Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen (Haarlem, voor–1633)
c. 1621
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 136.8 cm x width 187 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
A Spanish flagship is hit amidships by a smaller Dutch warship. It explodes in the middle of the Bay of Gibraltar. 25 April 1607: this is the first sea battle the Dutch fleet fights out with the Spanish beyond their own waters. It meets with great success. The Spanish losses are extensive: Spanish soldiers are catapulted into the air and drown in the sea. The painting is thus also meant to celebrate this spectacular Dutch victory.
