Room 175

Sea and Coast

1614–1894, Holland, France, Denmark, America, Themed room

From seventeenth-century Dutch seascapes to the coast of Normandy: Vroom, de Vlieger and Backhuysen painted fleets and ships in storms, Courbet the cliff at Étretat, Mesdag the fishing boats of Scheveningen. Kensett, Heade and Whittredge show the quiet coasts of America.

All works

• The Coast at Trouville
• View of the Port of Saint-Valéry-sur-Somme
• Beacon Rock, Newport Harbor
• Beach at Beverly
• Ships in Distress off a Rocky Coast
• Estuary at Day's End
• Ships in a Gale
• The Stranded Ship
• Second Beach, Newport
• A Fleet at Sea
• Sunset at Scheveningen: A Fleet of Fishing Vessels at Anchor
• Boston Harbor
• View of Sommerspiret, the Cliffs of Møn
• Narragansett Bay
• The Cliff at Étretat
• The Ship "Favorite" Maneuvering Off Greenock
• Ship in Full Sail
• Rio de Janeiro Bay
• The Coming Storm: A Fishing Boat Making for Home off Whitby
• Tuna Fishing at Sunrise off the Coast near Marseilles