Storm Off a Sea Coast

Storm Off a Sea Coast, also known as The Breakwater, is a 1670 oil on canvas painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Jacob van Ruisdael.

[1] The painting is called A Storm at Sea Off the Dykes of Holland in the 1911 catalogue raisonné compiled by Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, in which it is catalogue number 961.

De Groot described the scene: "On the right is a dyke lined with piles, beyond which is a fisherman's cottage with a few trees.

Farther back rise the masts of several large vessels, as well as the stern with a Dutch flag.

[3] In the 19th century, Vincent van Gogh called this painting by Ruisdael, along with The Bush and Ray of Light, "magnificent".