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Ludolf Backhuysen
A seascape with smalschips on choppy seas, said to be Tsar Peter the Great’s boeier off Amsterdam
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Ludolf Backhuysen
Emden 1630 - 1708 Amsterdam
A seascape with smalschips on choppy seas, said to be Tsar Peter the Great’s boeier off Amsterdam
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...
oil on canvas
unframed: 55.2 x 79.8 cm.; 21¾ x 31⅜ in.
framed: 70.7 x 94.7 cm.; 27⅞ x 37¼ in.
With D. Komter, Amsterdam;
His sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby Mak van Waay, 9–12 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 Kunsthandel S. 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.
G. de Beer, Ludolf Backhuysen 1630–1708, Zwolle 2002, pp. 145–46, no. 91, reproduced in 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.