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The Cannon Shot
Also titled Het kanonschot
Willem van de Velde (II) (Leiden, 1633–1707)
c. 1680
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 78.5 cm x width 67 cm x height 90.8 cm x width 80.5 cm x depth 7.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the City of Amsterdam (A. van der Hoop Bequest)
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
A Dutch warship in a calm, with its sails loosed, fires a cannon shot. Two sloops float to either side of the man-of-war, and another Dutch ship with lowered sails can be seen in the distance.
