A pale sandy beach, made even broader as the low tide ebbs away, extends to the sea in the right background and leads to the small Dutch fishing village of Katwijk aan Zee in the left background. A sailing ship anchoring there stands out prominently, corresponding with the 14-metre Vuurbaak lighthouse, the second oldest in the Netherlands, on the left. Shown from the back, a woman in dark attire who seems to be strolling along the beach in the middle ground enlivens the scene. A closer look reve...
Beschriftung: E. Dücker. Nachlaß., rückseitig, unten links, gedruckt
Numbering: mit blauer Kreide
Dücker-Nachlass (1916); (...); Kunsthandel, Deutschland (bis 2016); MKdW (2016).
Carsten Roth: Dücker, Eugen, in: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Die bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker, Bd. 39, 2001, S. 270.