Frederik Hendrik Kaemmerer

Elegant Ladies at Scheveningen Beach, 1871

Frederik Hendrik Kaemmerer travelled to Scheveningen in the company of his friend, the painter David Adolphe Constant Artz, in the spring of 1871. Also a painter, Josef Israëls describes the fascination that the fashionable bathers exerted on the artists in the yearbook “Die Haghe”: “There can be no better training for a painter than these figures who reveal themselves and move out in the open: elegantly dressed ladies, pastors with long coats and stockings, farmers from the nearby villages, lov...

Signatur und Datierung: Scheveningen. Mai 71, unten links

Hotel Drouot, Paris, Auktion 25.–27.12.1902; Kunsthandel, Niederlande (bis 2019); MKdW 2019.
Mayken Jonkmann: Frederik Hendrik Kaemmerer. L’Enfant Chérie du Marché et de l’Art, in: Les Hollandais à Paris 1789–1914, Ausst.-Kat. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Petit Palais Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, in Zusammenarbeit mit Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis, Den Haag, Paris 2017, S. 131–147.

Frederik Hendrik Kaemmerer (1839 - 1902)

Elegant Ladies at Scheveningen Beach

1871

Oil on chipboard

15.5 x 24 cm

Human

Inv.-Nr. 1 KAE 01_DPL

Museum Kunst der Westküste

Access 2020

On display