Sailing ships off the coast with a two-master making way, fishermen on the beach in the foreground

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Attributed to Aernout Smit (? 1641/2-1710 Amsterdam)
Sailing ships off the coast with a two-master making way, fishermen on the beach in the foreground
with signature 'LBakhuizen' (lower left)
oil on canvas
76.6 x 105.6 cm.

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Lot Essay

For the attribution, compare with the signed work, oil on canvas and measuring 26.5 x 45 cm., with the Galerie Sankt Lucas, Vienna, 1971, no. 23, illustrated (recorded in the RKD, The Hague).

We are grateful to Sabine Giepmans of the RKD, The Hague, for the tentative attribution, given on the basis of a photograph.

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