LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on canvas
Size Notes:
55.2 x 79.8
Description:
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Markings:
signed with initials on the duckboard lower centre:LB; and dated on the cask lower centre:1697, and indistinctly inscribed on the flag upper centre:LBa...
Exhibited:
Oxnard, California,Channel Islands Maritime Museum,on loan.
Literature:
Czaar Peter de Grooter als zeiler, inDe Watersport, vol. XI, 1922, p. 117, no. 6, reproduced;; G. de Beer,Ludolf Backhuysen 16301708, Zwolle 2002, pp. 14546, no. 91, reproducedin colour fig. 178;; B. Bakker, E. Schmitz and J.E. Abrahamse,Het aanzien van Amsterdam: plattegronden en profielen uit de Gouden Eeuw, Bussum 2007, pp. 255 and 295, note 51.
Provenance:
With D. Komter, Amsterdam;His sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby Mak van Waay, 912 March 1926, lot 3 (as The visit of Czar Peter the Great to Amsterdam), for 1,125 Dutch Florins to Bruyne;J.W.F. Haverkamp;His sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby Mak van Waay, 5 June 1928, lot 166;Possibly with KunsthandelS. Nystad, The Hague (according to a mount at the RKD, The Hague);Private collection, Europe;Anonymous sale (The Property of a Gentleman), London, Sotheby's, 14 December 2000, lot 54 (as A Seascape);With Richard Green, London, 2000;Private collection, USA.