Ludolf Bakhuizen
An extensive seascape with figures by a boat on a shore
166739.4 x 34 cm
Oil on panel
Signed with initials and dated, lower right: L.B. / 1667
Sale Christie's, London, 7 December 2017
Provenance
Anonymous sale [Armand-Fréderic-Ernest Nogaret]
his sale, Hôtel de Bullion, Paris, 2 June 1780 (= 1st day), nr. 43 (600 francs to Le Brun)
Alexandre-Louis Hersant-Destouches
sale Paris, 21 March 1794, nr. 118 (1,800 livres to Vauthier)
Prince Eugène-Rose de Beauharnais (1781- 1824), Viceroy of Italy, and later 1st Duke of Leuchtenberg, and 1st Prince of Eichstätt ad personam, son of Empress Joséphine and adopted son of Emperor Napoléon I, commander of the Army of Italy and statesman, by descent to his second son
Maximilian-Eugène-Auguste-Joseph-Napoléon de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg (1817-1852), bequeathed along with the whole Leuchtenberg Collection to his wife
The Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna (1819-1876) (eldest daughter of Tsar Nicholas I), Munich and subsequently Saint Petersburg, and by descent until 1917.
Nordiska Kompaniet, Stockholm, 1917
sale Christie's, London, Property from a Private European Collection, 7 December 2017, nr. 3
Other works by Ludolf Backhuysen
View on Amsterdam near the Haringpakkerstoren
c. 1685
c. 1685
Rough Sea with a Dutch Yacht under Sail
1694
1694
Ships in a Storm
1658
1658
Ships on a stormy sea
1702
1702
The Y off Amsterdam