Boats (In Use)

Magnus Enckell
Boy and Sail
1902
oil on canvas
Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki

Winslow Homer
Stowing Sail
1903
watercolor
Art Institute of Chicago

George du Maurier
"Those Browns and their luminous paint again!"
1883
drawing
(for reproduction as Punch cartoon)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Thomas Eakins
John Biglin in a Single Scull
1874
oil on canvas
Yale University Art Gallery

Walter Crane
The Road to Eternity
1902
pastel on paper
Národní Galerie, Prague

William Stott
The Bathing Place
ca. 1882
oil on canvas
Neue Pinakothek, Munich

Richard Parkes Bonington
Fishing Boats moored in an Estuary
1825
watercolor
Courtauld Gallery, London

Paul Bril
Nocturnal Harbor Landscape
1601
oil on copper
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Caradosso Foppa
Marine Scene
ca. 1500
bronze plaquette
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Hendrik Kobell
Shipping Scene
1778
watercolor
Morgan Library, New York

Roberto Guastalla
Venetian Canal
1890
oil on panel
Galleria Nazionale di Parma

Paul Signac
Santa Maria della Salute, Venice
1904
oil on canvas
Neue Pinakothek, Munich

Johann Heinrich Schönfeld
Christ and the Apostles on the Sea of Galilee
ca. 1670-75
oil on canvas
Deutsche Barockgalerie, Augsburg

Théodore Géricault
Study for Raft of the Medusa
1817
drawing
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille

Lefebvre Workshop
The Miraculous Draught of Fishes
ca. 1653-61
wool and silk tapestry
(after Raphael cartoon now in London)
Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino

Anonymous French Photographer
Sailors at Lourdes carrying Ship Model
1937
gelatin silver print
Wellcome Collection, London

from Song from a Play

Everything that man esteems
Endures a moment or a day.
Love's pleasure drives his love away,
The painter's brush consumes his dreams;
The herald's cry, the soldier's tread
Exhaust his glory and his might:
Whatever flames upon the night
Man's own resinous heart has fed.

– W.B. Yeats (1928)