Die Rückkehr der Fischer. 1890.
Oil on panel.
Bottom right signed. With a hand-written number and a label on the reverse. 51 x 39.5 cm (20 x 15.5 in).

• Hendrik Willem Mesdag was one of the main representatives of the impressionist Hague School.
• The fishing boats observed on the beach of Scheveningen near The Hague are a characteristic motif in his work.
• Mesdag combines the traditional Dutch marine genre with a modern, impressionist form of expression.

We are grateful to the RKD-Netherlands Institute for Art History, The Hague, for the kind expert advice.

PROVENANCE: Kohn & Hancke Buch- und Kunsthandlung, Wroclaw (presumably before 1900, with a label on the reverse).
Private collection Switzerland (with the address stamp on the reverse).
Private collection Baden-Württemberg/Northern Germany (in long-time family ownership until 2010: Ketterer Kunst, April 23, 2010).
Private collection Baden-Württemberg (acquired from the above in 2010).

LITERATURE: Ketterer Kunst, Munich, auction on April 23, 2010, lot 187 (with illu.).