Fishwives on the Beach at Scheveningen c. 1880 - 1885
bernardusjohannesblommers
possibly oil pastel
oil painting
coloured pencil
underpainting
painting painterly
watercolour bleed
watercolour illustration
mixed media
watercolor
warm toned green
"Fishwives on the Beach at Scheveningen" is a watercolor painting by Dutch artist Bernardus Johannes Blommers, dating to the late 19th century. The painting depicts a group of women, known as "fishwives", sorting through fish on a beach in Scheveningen, a coastal town in the Netherlands. The painting captures the daily life of these women, a scene which was common at the time and provided a subject for many Dutch painters. The painting is now housed in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
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The small, square-rigged bomschuits brought their catch onto the beach at Scheveningen to be sorted and auctioned. Fishwives filled their large baskets with fresh fish for sale in the town. This watercolour is not from the Drucker-Fraser collection, but from a legacy left by Jhr. P.A. van den Velden in 1892. He laid the ground for the Rijksmuseum’s collection of 19th-century drawings and watercolours.
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