Beach at Scheveningen in Stormy Weather
by GOGH, Vincent van, Oil on canvas on cardboard, 35 x 51 cm
Catalogue numbers: F 4, JH 187.
In the years 1881-83 van Gogh had often visited Scheveningen, a fishing village and holiday resort on the North Sea, a few miles from The Hague. There he drew the great fishing smacks drawn up on the beach, in the manner of Hague School painters such as Henrik Mesdag and Anton Mauve.