In this exceptional seascape, Emilios Prosalentis (1859 – 1926) depicts a sailing vessel sailing in deep waters. As the ship travels along the sea to the right, the viewer sees its bow but not its stern due to the swelling waves. The sky is cloudy but not dark as the light diffuses through the clouds. The painter has uniquely rendered the waters in dark and blue tones, the wrinkles on their surface, while the foam of the waves is represented in white tones. The delicacy with which he depicts the sailboat is also exceptional, where in addition to its masts, ropes and sails, one can also observe other details such as its portholes. Prosalentis, having grown up in an artistic environment, was an excellent connoisseur of painting media and a skilled operator of them. However, in addition to being a good artist, he was also an engineer who worked in the navy, as a result of which he had an in-depth knowledge of the structure of boats and their behavior under different weather conditions. During his work, the painter spent hours observing and drawing the sea, the sky and the boats, producing some of the most important seascapes of modern Greek art.
