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Along the Coast
10⁹⁄₁₆ x 19¾ inches
Signed lower right: MFH de Haas
Provenance
Private collection, Massachusetts
Sale, Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers, Greenwich, Connecticut, October 20, 2005, lot 23
Private collection, Riverside, Connecticut, by 2013
Private collection, Edgartown, Massachusetts, from above, 2014
Private collection, Florida, by descent from above
Related Works
Summer Light on the Sea, 1864, oil on canvas, 11¼ x 19 ⅞ inches; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Fishing Boats off the Coast, oil on canvas, 36 x 60¼ inches; Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, Massachusetts
Note
Mauritz Frederik Hendrik de Haas, who once worked as a mariner, found great success in his spectacular maritime scenes. This work highlights the artist’s mastery of light, as golden light falls across the billowy clouds. His work is part of many museum collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Walters Art Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery.
