Nº 69
Reading edition
Nicolaas Bastert DUTCH: 1854-
THE WHITE SAIL
Height, 16 inches; length, 23½ inches
The motive of this picture was found on a quiet waterway somewhere in the Netherlands, where a broad, placid stream flows smoothly between the low banks in a level, well-wooded country. In the middle distance is a sailing craft with a single mast, the sails bellying in the gentle breeze, and reflected, together with the sunlit clouds which drift across the sky, in the quiet waters of the stream.
Signed at the lower right, N. Bastert.