Ship on beach
- Artist
- Wijnandus Johannes Josephus Nuijen (1813-1839)
- Year
- 1836
- Genre
- seascape
- Keywords
- beach, sea, ship
- Category
- painting
- Support
- panel
- Technique
- oil
- Composition
- horizontal
- Measurements
- 30 x 42 cm
- Signed
- bottom right, W.J.J. Nuyen f 1836
- Location
- Netherlands
- Owner
- Private owner known
Description
A brush study of this painting exists in the De Grez Collection, now in the possession of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts and Brussels.
See Ship on beach 1836 brush drawing 17.7 x 25.5 cm
In terms of subject matter, the painting bears a strong resemblance to the ‘Shipwreck on a Rocky Coast’. Here, too, it appears as if the ship has only just run aground. Several passengers have already left the ship, while others are still on board. A fire is being stoked at the bow. The anchor in the foreground, lying between an overturned lifeboat and a broken mast, is perhaps a reference to hope (for rescue).
Exhibitions
- 1951 exhibition Dordrecht Dordrechts museum ‘our element’
- 1951 exhibtion Schiedam collection de Geus van den Heuvel
- 1952 exhibition Museum Panorama Mesdag The Hague ‘paintings and drawings by W.J.J. Nuijen'
- 1952/1953 exhibition Schiedam Stedelijk museum Schiedam
- 1955/1956 Exhibition Museum Prinsenhof Delft ‘The Romantic school’
- 1957 exhibtition Oss Jan Cunen museum
- 1957/1958 exhibition Rijksmuseum Twente Enschede 'The Romantic School'
- 1958 exhibition Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam ‘from Romantic to the school of Amsterdam’
- 1960 exhibition Arnhem Gemeentemuseum Arnhem ‘painters from 1815-1850’
- 1964 exhibition Laren Singer Museum
- 1967 exhibition 'fantasy and reality’ Dordrechts museum
- 1977 / 1978 exhibition 'Wijnand Nuijen romantic works' The Hague Haags Gemeente Museum
Sources
- 1952 catalog exhibition ‘paintings and drawings by W.J.J. Nuijen' Panorama Mesdag The Hague, nummer 27 afbeelding pagina 35
- 1955/1956 catalog 'the romantic school' Museum Prinsenhof Delft , nummer 30
- 1977/1978 catalog 'Wijnand Nuyen 1813-1839 romantic works' exhibition The Hague 1977 (John Sillevis / Nini Jonker) , nummer 31
- 1981 book Pieter A. Scheen ‘Lexicon Dutch visual artists 1750 -1880’ vol III , pagina 180
- 1993 Catalog tentoonstelling Rijswijk ‘The friends of Wijnand Nuijen’ Henk Dinkelaar, afbeelding 4.13 pagina 55
- 2025 book 'The painters of The Hague' issued on the occasion off the exhibition ‘Light, air, water’ in museum Panorama Mesdag The Hague NL , afbeelding pagina 36
Provenance
- Collection J. Blaauboer, Amsterdam
- 1951 auction Mak van Waay Amsterdam mei 1951 lot 46
- 1951-1976 collection Mr. Bas den Geus van den Heuvel Nieuwersluis
- 1976 auction Sotheby’s Mak van Waay Amsterdam lot 157
- Art gallery Pieter A. Scheen The Hague
- 1977/1978 collection A.A.M. Ruijgrok The Hague (on loan to Gemeentemuseum exhibition, insured value dfl 175.000
- 2021 auction Venduehuis The Hague 17th/18th/21st of november 2021. Estimated € 15000 - € 25000. Sold € 72.500 to a private collector Germany.
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