File:Dutch herring fishery RMG BHC0967.tiff
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[edit]Adriaen van Salm: Dutch herring fishery | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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artist QS:P170,Q2949874 |
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painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213 |
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Description |
English: Dutch herring fishery Adriaen van Salm (1657-1720) worked as a schoolmaster and textile merchant in Delfshaven near Rotterdam. He also specialised in pen-painting, a branch of Dutch 17th-century maritime painting that experimented with the pictorial effects of blurring the boundaries between painting and the more linear graphic arts. Such scenes were executed in grisaille, a black and white rendering. This scene shows various busses, herring fishing vessels, retrieving their nets in a fresh breeze. The artist has atmospherically captured the rolling of the boats on the waves under the clear sky, but the composition is actually carefully built around the central perspective created by the arrangement of the ships towards the low horizon and accentuated by the contrasting flat diagonal of the advancing waves. The image’s spatial recession is enhanced by the technique of the pen-painting itself. Lines and shapes become lighter towards the horizon, whereas the foreground areas are kept darker by employing parallel hatching. The artist’s signature appears on a plank of wood floating in the lower right. During the 17th century the herring fishery formed one of the pillars of the Dutch economy. Van Salm’s tackling of the theme reflects the industry’s importance, but at the same time the picture relates to the tradition of the undramatic Dutch seascape depicting everyday life in the North Sea, founded by artists such as Jan Porcellis in the first half of the 17th century. |
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Date | late 17th century | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions | Painting: 320 mm x 395 mm; Frame: 475 x 544 x 88 mm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q7374509 |
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Accession number |
BHC0967 |
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Notes | Signed. Arts Council of Great Britain label. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/12459 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The original artefact or artwork has been assessed as public domain by age, and faithful reproductions of the two dimensional work are also public domain. No permission is required for reuse for any purpose. The text of this image record has been derived from the Royal Museums Greenwich catalogue and image metadata. Individual data and facts such as date, author and title are not copyrightable, but reuse of longer descriptive text from the catalogue may not be considered fair use. Reuse of the text must be attributed to the "National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London" and a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 license may apply if not rewritten. Refer to Royal Museums Greenwich copyright. |
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Identifier InfoField | Acquisition Number: 1942-185 id number: BHC0967 |
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Collection InfoField | Oil paintings |
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