Painting, Bartholomeus Johannes van Hove, 1861

painting, Bartholomeus Johannes van Hove, 1861, Signature front, bottom right: B.J. van Hove 1861, canvas, oil paint, painted, Overall dimensions according to catalog 1983: 67 x 82.5cm 670 x 825mm, With frame: 101.4 × 115.5 × 10cm 1014 × 1155 × 100mm, rowing boat, canal, woman, cityscape , man, tree, child, Leiden, painting depicting the Saaihal in Leiden, partly fantasized on the Steenschuur in a north-westerly direction. To the left is the Saaihal, as well as the adjacent plots, with an awning. The facades have a late medieval and renaissance character. In the middle a view to the Nieuwe Rijn and right to the Levendaal. There are trees along the waterfront. A church is visible both behind the Saaihal and above the Levendaal, which recalls the Hooglandse Kerk. A covered wagon and many figures in front of the Saaihal. On the left a rowing boat sails on the canal and in the foreground are an angler, a gentleman, a lady and a child, who, like the other figures, are dressed in costumes from around 1600. Signed lower right. The painting is in a gilded wooden frame, 1927. (photo by: Sepia Times/ Universal Images Group via Getty Images)