(Emden 1630 – Amsterdam 1708)

Three Masters off the Coast.  On the shore fishermen pulling a small boak to shore.

Oil on canvas, 54 x 69 cm

Signed and dated lower left in the centre: L. Bakh / 1697.

On the stretcher old adhesive label.

Provenance: William Rome Collection, England; Collection G. von Mallmann, Berlin, since 1907; Auktion Berlin 06.12.1918, lot 141 with ill.; Private collection, Germany.

Literature: C. Hofstede de Groot: A Catalogue Raisonné of the works of  The Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century. London 1923, Vol. VII, p. 259, no. 184.

The painting is registered in the databank of the RKD, The Hague, under the ill. no. 34248.

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