Bakhuizen embellished this seascape (his usual subject) with a group of picnickers. Picnick ann zee’s contemporary title is appropriate but inaccurate because picnic was not applied to an alfresco meal in 1701. Pique-nique had only been included in Gilles Mange’s dictionary in 1694, and it denoted an indoor gathering at which guests contributed food or shared the cost of the provisions.
See Ludolf Bakhuizen Picnick aan zee (aka Picnic by the Sea) (1701)