Oil on canvas, signed at lower right, presented in a later gilt frame.

Frame dimensions 37 1/2 x 49 in.

Louis Saraben was a maritime painter at the École de Havre. He exhibited at the 1874 and 1879 Salons.

Stable craquelure and drying crackle; light surface grime and some paint splatter; some scratching through paint surface in lower right corner of canvas; no evidence of restoration visible under UV light.