Shipwreck on the Coast is an 1862 maritime painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix.Allard & Fabre p.297Huyghe p.490 It drew inspiration from the works of Giovanni Battista Piranesi.Allard & Fabre p.196 Viewed from a rocky coastline it shows a completely dismasted vessel.Landow p.38 It was part of a thriving tradition in nineteenth century art depicting shipwrecks.Casaliggi p.105 Today the painting is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, having been acquired in 2004.https://emuseum.mfah.org/objects/62197
References
Bibliography Allard, Sébastien & Fabre, Côme. Delacroix. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018. Casaliggi, Carmen. John Ruskin, J.M.W. Turner and the Art of Water. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022. Huyghe, René. Delacroix. H.N. Abrams, 1963. Landow, George P. Images of Crisis: Literary Iconology, 1750 to the Present. Routledge, 2014.