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- Follower of Philips Wouwermans (1619 - 1668)
- A Conversation by the Sea
- Netherlands
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- Date: probably late 17th century
- Object Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil on oak panel
- Image size: 24.3 x 33.2 cm
- Frame size: 52 x 60 x 6 cm
- Inv: P187
- Location: Arms and Armour IV
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- The scale of the figures and horses, placed before an extensive Italianate landscape, implies that this is a transitional work, painted in the 1650s between the artist’s early and middle periods. Pentimenti reveal that Wouwermans erased a goat and two cows to the right of the standing lady and two ducks behind the left-hand figure group. This created a tighter composition and focused attention upon the elegant couple at the centre of the picture, thereby adding to the mood of ambiguous gallantry (cf. Watteau).