The painting depicts a seascape. The horizon is in the lower third of the composition, where the sky meets the calm sea. In front of it are multiple sailing ships floating on the water in the distance. Above the water, the sun is setting, and dark purple clouds cross the pale-blue sky. The sun casts pale yellow and orange light on the sky and sea, while there are cooler blues and muted grays in the water and shadows of clouds.

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Sunset at Scheveningen: A Fleet of Fishing Vessels at Anchor

Hendrik Willem Mesdag (Dutch, 1831 - 1915)

1894

Medium: oil on canvas
Classification: Painting
Dimensions: overall: 95.89 x 127 cm (37 3/4 x 50 in.)
Culture: Dutch
Museum: National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line: Paul Mellon Fund and the Frank Anderson Trapp Fund
Rights: Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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