Caption:
painting, Jan van Goyen, 1640, Signature front, bottom right, on the rowing boat: VG 1640, panel, oil paint, painted, General (dimensions according to catalog 1983): 77 × 116cm (770 × 1160mm), With frame: 102.5 140.5 × 10cm (1025 × 1405 × 100mm), rowing boat, seascape, sailboat, Painting depicting a estuary. Some threateningly illuminated sailing and rowing boats on the bottom strip form the transition between the water and the cloudy sky. On the left is a large sailing ship, with on the right a rowing boat with three persons. In the right foreground a second rowing boat sails; four fishermen can be seen in this boat. This rowing boat shows white foam heads on the water. Some birds fly in the air. Signed bottom right. Painting is in a gilded wooden frame and is behind glass, 1987