Dutch school circa 1800 A kaag sailing in a strong breeze with various ships in the distance Oak panel, one board, not parqueted Bears the Martinet sale label on the reverse of the panel and a blue label with no. 493 and a label on the reverse of the frame "Backhuisen Marine". 35.4 x 47.5 cm Provenance : - Collection of the industrialist and politician Joseph Eugène Schneider (1805-1875), Paris - Sale after death of the collection of M. Eugène Schneider, Paris (Mes Pillet, Escribe, exp. Haro), April 6-7, 1876, first day, no. 1(Backuysen (Ludolf), sold for 4,000 francs) - Collection E. Martinet, Paris [probably the printer Claude-Constant-Émile Martinet (1838-1895)] - Sale after death of the collection of M. E. Martinet, Paris (Mes Chevallier, Duchesne, exp. Haro), February 27, 1896, no. 3 (Backhuysen (Ludolf), sold 1,200 francs to Brown, probably the dealer Ernest George Brown (1851-1915), who later became a partner of Leicester Galleries in London). - Private collection, descendants of Me Chevallier, since 1908 Bibliography: C. Hofstede de Groot, Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII Jahrhunderts, Esslingen/Paris, 1907-28, vol. VII (1918), p. 332, no. 410 (attributed to Ludolf Backhuysen).