Nº 71
Reading edition
Bernardus Johannes Blommers DUTCH: 1844-
A DUTCH FISHERMAN
Height, 28 inches; width, 17½ inches
This is the full-length figure of a young Dutch fisherman, holding under his right arm a basket, his left arm akimbo, looking down at a pile of fish which he has just thrown on the sandy beach at his bare feet. Beyond him are seen the water rippling on the shoal, and the hulls and the lower parts of sails of fishing vessels rising out of the top of the picture. Wading in water up to his arm-pits, a second fisherman struggles to the shore, carrying on his back a large basket of fish.
Signed at the lower right, Blommers.