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A Coastal Ruin in Italy
Also titled Ruïne aan het water in Italië
Jan Asselijn (Dieppe, 1610–1652)
1640 - 1652
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 54.5 cm x width 48 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Kids profiles and older: it shows nature, places, still life or a children's book. How works are placed
About this work
A favourite motif of the Italianates was a small harbour on the Mediterranean Sea with a crumbling quay and a ruin. At right are an African man and a couple of Turkish traders. At the left, a man in northern European clothing gestures out to sea. Overseas trade stimulated an interest for such scenes among Dutch collectors, even though the views were imaginary.
