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Fishing Pinks in Breaking Waves
Also titled Pinken in de branding
Hendrik Willem Mesdag (Groningen (stad), 1831–1915)
c. 1875 - c. 1885
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 90 cm x width 181 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- A.C. van Zegwaard Bequest
- 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
Mesdag affords us a glimpse into the life of fishermen from the village of Scheveningen. Their wooden flatbottomed ships, ‘pinks,’ could easily be pulled onto the beach in the absence of a harbour. Anchors stick out from the sand in the foreground. When the boats arrived, the women flocked to the beach to purchase freshly caught fish at auction, whereupon they went from door to door, selling their wares from carts.
