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Seascape with Rocks

Seascape with Rocks

Object type Painting
Genre Landscape
Date ca. 1592
Dimensions 10.2 x 11.4 cm
Support Copper
Medium Oil
Our attribution Jan Brueghel the Elder
Other authorities Ertz 2008-10, #99 as probable
Location Indianapolis, IN, United States
Collection Indianapolis Museum of Art
Accession numbers inv. #10014, Mrs. E.W. Clowes Fund
Tags Coast, Rocks, Boat
External resources Indianapolis Museum of Art
Ertz 1979, cat. #26
Russell in Burlington Magazine 134 (March 1992), p. 176 as Cornelis Liefrinck II
Cremona 1998, p. 129-130
Ertz 2008, cat. #99
Essen/Vienna 1997, cat. #21
Antwerp 1998, cat. #25
St. Michel-lez-Bruges, Brussels Baron Henri-Marie-Bruno-Joseph-Lïon Kervyn de Lettenhove
1948 Zionsville, IN By descent to Colette H. Dawson, Mrs. John W. Dawson
1960 Indianapolis, IN Purchased by Mrs. G.H.A. Clowes
1967 to 2010 Indianapolis, IN Clowes Fund Collection
1971 Indianapolis, IN On long term loan to Indianpolis Museum of Art (as C10014)
E.A. Honig
February 4, 2015

This painting appears in Frans II Francken's painting of a study shelf with art/natural objects that is now in the Chiavari collection in Italy. It is sitting on a shelf at the right-hand side of the table, behind a collection of shells, a lock and a pairof spectacles.

A loose copy of this painting was sold at Christie's, New York, May 22, 1998, #20 (panel, 14 x 19.3 cm).