Sea Storm near the Arco di Miseno near Miliscola, Looking toward Nisida – Works – Sammlung Online

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The image depicts a dramatic coastal landscape. In the foreground, waves crash against rocks. A boat with two figures is navigating through the turbulent sea. In the background, a curved rock arch rises, with a small cliff at its base featuring some vegetation. Above the scene, dark clouds hover with rays of light breaking through.

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Sea Storm near the Arco di Miseno near Miliscola, Looking toward Nisida
Grotte Foccia an der Küste von Fusara bei Neapel
Date1819

Artist Joseph Rebell (1787 Wien – 1828 Dresden)

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Object typePainting
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions
99 × 137 cm
SignatureSign. und dat. unten links: Jos. Rebell 1819
Inventory number2123
Location Currently not on display
Rebell’s painting has absolutely nothing in common with the softly lit Italian landscapes that were popular in his day. His theme is nature in all its primal force. Light bursts dramatically through the dark blanket of clouds and a natural rock arch, the Arco di Miseno, near Naples. The muddy brown sea has been whipped up in the storm, the small fishing boat is a plaything of the waves. At any moment it could smash against the rocks and sink. Utterly “moved and terrified” was Dorothea Schlegel’s reaction to the painting, as she wrote in March 1820 to her husband, the philosopher Friedrich Schlegel. This and three further views from the Naples area were commissioned by Emperor Francis I.

Provenance
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1820 Ankauf vom Künstler durch Kaiser Franz I. für Kaiserliche Gemäldegalerie
1921 Übernahme aus dem Kunsthistorischen Museum, Wien

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