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Lighthouse in Breaking Waves
Also titled Vuurtoren in de branding
Hendrik Willem Mesdag (Groningen (stad), 1831–1915)
c. 1900 - c. 1907
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 52 cm x width 40 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- J.B.A.M. Westerwoudt Bequest, Haarlem
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, 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
About this work
From 1870 the fishing village of Scheveningen grew rapidly into a modern seaside resort. Mesdag, however, rarely depicted the boulevard, or the new harbour that was built in 1904. He preferred to paint the traditional life of fishermen. This picture is an exception: a light-house, or rather a beacon. Signal lights, piers and the lighthouse were installed in Scheveningen only in the early 20th century.
