Coastal view

Low horizon. Parallel to the picture plane on the right a bastion on which people are standing, on the left shallow bank. A group of three men with baskets in the foreground at the left edge of the picture, further in the centre workers with a cart. Poles rise from the water at irregular intervals.

Inscribed at lower right: Laure [Pinx?] 1839 [?] [1827 ?]

Verso: Stretcher upper right, handwritten in blue: "31R7/2u"; stretcher upper left, handwritten in red: "7708" [=Munich CCP no.]; stretcher centre left, handwritten in pencil: "(51)"; stretcher centre right, handwritten in black: "21" [crossed out]; stretcher lower right and left: Label BStGS; frame upper left, handwritten in blue: "239"; frame upper centre, label with biographical information on the artist; frame upper right, handwritten in blue: "2576/5"; frame upper left, 2 stickers on top of each other, lower printed: "Weltausstellung 1878 in Paris", upper printed: "58"; frame left centre, handwritten in red: "7708" [=Munich CCP no. ]; below, handwritten in yellow: "W. J.[?] 6/7 [rest missing]"; to the left handwritten on label: "Ölgemälde 146".