(Antwerp, 1614 - Hoboken, 1652)
Dutch ships in the storm
Signed and dated: B. Peters 1684 (reinforced)
Oil on canvas, 41X58.5 cm.
Provenance:
Amsterdam, Sotheby's, March 3, 1991, lot 121
(as Bonaventure Peeters I)
Private collection
Bibliography:
RKD: https://rkd.nl/imageslite/70629 (as Bonaventura Peeters I)
The canvas depicts a 'sea fortune' and immediately manifests its direct analogy to works created by Bonaventura Peeters (Antwerp, 1614 ; Hooboken, 1652) and Pieter Mulier known as Cavalier Tempesta. The drafting characterized by textural brushstrokes and the skillful use of light tones creates the realistic illusion of the waves crashing against the rocks. The canvas finds illustrative similarities with the Fortuna di Mare preserved at the Palazzo Bianco Museum in Genoa (Roethlisberger, p. 93, nos. 94, 95), in which a vessel is seen in the storm near a rocky and impassable stretch of coastline.
The work is accompanied by a critical file by Raffaella Colace.
Reference bibliography:
M. Roethlisberger, Cavalier Pietro Tempesta and his time, Newark, University of Delaware Press 1970, ad vocem
M. Suchomel, Some Observations on the Reciprocal Similarity of Seventeenth-Century Marine Paintings, Bulletin of the National Gallery in Prague, no. 10, Prague 2002, pp. 62-67
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