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Description: | This painting depicts a fishing-boat approaching the beach of Scheveningen. A group of fisherwomen are gathered around the boat, standing with their feet in the water. The sky is grey and full of clouds. The boat with the flat keel which is placed in the centre of Jacob Maris's composition, is a so-called 'bomschuit', a motif that occupied Jacob Maris especially during the 1880s. Until the 1890s, the absence of a harbour in Scheveningen caused these boats to be hauled upon the beach by horses - another favourite theme of the Hague School artists. | Subjects: | marine; figure | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Maris, Jacob Henricus (Dutch landscape painter, 1837-1899) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8822... | Go to resource |
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