Ludolf Bakhuyzen I (Emden 1631-1708 Amsterdam)

A Dutch man-of-war firing a salute and other shipping off an island, possibly Texel, with fishermen on the shore in the foreground and others on a pier

细节

Ludolf Bakhuyzen I (Emden 1631-1708 Amsterdam)
A Dutch man-of-war firing a salute and other shipping off an island, possibly Texel, with fishermen on the shore in the foreground and others on a pier
signed and dated 'L BAKH: 1701' (lower centre)
oil on canvas
17½ x 24¾ in. (44.5 x 62.7 cm.)

来源

H. de Kat, Dordrecht; sale, Paris, 2 May 1862, lot 3.
T. Martin, London; Christie's, London, 17 December 1901, lot 143.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 24 April 1914, lot 79.
with Ween and Klepman, Amsterdam, 1917.
with Independent Gallery, London, 1929.
In the family of the present owner since the early 20th century.

出版

C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, VII, London, 1923, p. 312, no. 452, as 'A Dutch Warship in an Estuary'.
The Burlington Magazine, LV, July 1929, p. 316.

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We are grateful to Dr. Gerlinde de Beer for her thoughts on this picture, on the basis of photographs. Catalogued by Hofstede de Groot as simply 'A Dutch Warship in an Estuary', de Beer has suggested that the high dunes in the left background seem to be those of Texel, the largest and most populated of the Frisian Islands in the Wadden Sea, North Holland, and also the westernmost of this archipelago, which extends to Denmark. This stretch of water was the site of the Battle of Scheveningen (1653) during the First Anglo-Dutch War and the Battle of Texel (1673) during the Third Anglo-Dutch War. This type of scene, with a Dutch man-of-war arriving or departing and figures on dunes in the foreground, features in Bakhuyzen's work as early as the 1670s; a fine example of c. 1670 is in the Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio (G. de Beer, Ludolf Backhuysen (1630-1708): sein Leben und Werk, Zwolle, 2002, p. 75, no. 31, fig. 81).