Elegant Ladies on the Beach at Scheveningen, c. 1873
15.5 x 24 cm
Oil on canvas
Private collection
In the present work, two elegant ladies dressed in the latest fashions are seen taking a stroll on a sun-bleached stretch of beach. To this scene of leisured sophistication, Kaemmerer incongruously adds the remains of a rusty canon, pointed in the same direction, on an otherwise empty stretch of beach, suggesting the pair may be visiting a historic stretch of sand where a past naval battle was fought. More on this painting
Frederik Hendrik Kaemmerer (23 October 1839, The Hague — 4 April 1902, Paris) was a Dutch painter. He originally worked in the Romantic and Academic styles, but later became an Impressionist…
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