25. Nicolaas Baur
Nicholas Baur
(1767-1820)
Harbor View on the Zuiderzee near Harderwijk (A Harbor View on the Zuiderzee near Harderwijk) (1806)
Signed and dated 1806 on the jetty lower left
Oil on canvas, 51.2 × 67.2 cm
Provenance:
– Presumably auction Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, Amsterdam, 12 July 1819, lot 7
- Private collection, the Netherlands
Note:
Including the abovementioned literature.
A pen-and-wash drawing by Nicolaas Baur with a similar composition is part of the collection of the Prentenkabinet Rijksuniversiteit of Leiden (inv. no. 2525). Just as the current lot, it depicts a harbor view of presumably Harderwijk, the Netherlands. The drawing is described and illustrated in Gemeentemuseum Het Hannemahuis's exhibition catalogue, Turbulent aquatic life and work of the marine painter Nicolaas Baur (1767-1820), (Van den Berg-Dijkstra, 1993).
* Condition report available upon request