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Bluff-bowed Fishing Boat on the Beach at Scheveningen
Also titled Bomschuit op het Scheveningse strand
Jacob Maris (The Hague, 1837–1899)
c. 1885
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 14.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of W.C.S. Drucker-de Koning, The Hague
- 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
Maris painted a bluff-bowed fishing boat at sea at least sixteen times. They are studies in light and atmosphere. To avoid the problems caused by constant- ly changing light conditions, he worked in his studio. Maris also preferred to select his colours indoors, because, as he stated, it was sometimes necessary to ‘exaggerate in order to learn about the power of colours’.
