Oil painting on canvas from the Flemish school of the 17th century depicting a scene with a stormy sea. Already attributed to Jan Peeters (1624 -1677), the painting falls fully within the style and genre of the author, who, working in his father's and then his brother Bonaventure's workshop, specialized in navies, especially in "Fortunes of the Sea," that is, accidents due to the sea, and any other event caused at sea by fortuitous fact or insurmountable obstacle, which therefore in painting become representations of storms with ships and crews at the mercy of events. This is precisely what the painting proposed here is about: some ships, laden with men, are at the mercy of the high waves of a night storm near the coast, which, with its protruding rocks, has already caused some small boats to founder. One can sense the struggle of the men, small and helpless, against the forces of nature, dominant, violent, dark and hostile, which towers over and attacks the boats from both the sea and the dark and black sky.
Restored and restretched, the painting is presented in a style frame. Size without frame: 102 x 178 cm.
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PLATINUM Seller in Milano, Italy
