Floris Arntzenius

The Beach at Scheveningen, n. d.

The beach at the fashionable seaside resort of Scheveningen is bustling with activity. Even if the sun has hidden itself behind an unbroken blanket of clouds, little groups and individual guests are to be found enjoying themselves at the sandy beach in front of this town on the Dutch coast. We seem to be able to make out children digging in the sand in the foreground; further back it is presumably adults that we see sitting together. It’s not really bathing weather, but this was years before sun...

Signature and date: none

Label: [...] Kunsthandel IVO BOUWMAN B.V. [...] Den Haag, backside, lower middle

Label: [2 labels for the exhibition ‘Impressionists and Post-Impressionists from the Netherlands’, 19 April - 21 May 1980, The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo], backside, upper middle, stretcher

Label: [Frame builder: A. J. Heijdenrijk Jr. BV, The Hague], backside

Kunsthandel, Niederlande (2022); MKdW (2022).
[Weiterführende Literatur] Dolf Welling: Floris Arntzenius, Den Haag 1992.

Floris Arntzenius (1864 - 1925)

The Beach at Scheveningen

n. d.

Oil on canvas

33.3 x 45.4 cm

Human

Inv.-Nr. 1 ARN 01

Museum Kunst der Westküste

Access 2022

Not on display

Derzeit zu sehen / Currently on display: Landesmuseum Hannover (bis / until May 2026)