Object data
oil on canvas
support: height 65.5 cm × width 110 cm
depth 6.5 cm
Reinier Nooms
View of Salee, Morocco
Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1662 - 1668
Inscriptions
- signature, on a rock face: R. Zeeman
Provenance
...; Admiraliteit van Amsterdam (Admiralty of Amsterdam);1 transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: SK-A-1399
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
View of a harbour with town and ships, seen from the sea.
The Amsterdam Admiralty commissioned Reinier Nooms to make four paintings (this painting and SK-A-1396, SK-A-1397 and SK-A-1398) after peace with Algiers and other North African states was achieved. It is thought that they were intended as a present for Michiel Adriaensz de Ruyter, but instead they remained with the Amsterdam Admiralty. In 1663, the Amsterdam-based captain Joris de Caulery received a chain worth a hundred silver ducats from the Staten Generaal in return for his present of these four paintings made by Nooms.2 Obreen incorrectly identified the town in the painting as Tangier.3
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, p. 173; P.J.J. van Thiel et al., All the Paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam: A Completely Illustrated Catalogue, coll. cat. Amsterdam 1976, p. 418; K. Bejjit, ‘Merchants, Diplomats, and Corsairs: The Dutch in Barbary in De Ruyter’s Time’, in J.R. Bruijn et al. (eds.), De Ruyter: Dutch Admiral, Rotterdam 2011, pp. 57-75
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Reinier Nooms, View of Salee, Morocco, Amsterdam, 1662 - 1668', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.7370
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