'It was always a bit of a puzzle what the people clustered on the sands, or peering down from the dunes, were actually looking at on a bleak stretch of windswept Dutch beach. Until recently, when conservator Shan Kuang discovered a beached whale, washed up on the shallows.' More information here.
View of 'Scheveningen Sands' by Hendrick van Anthonissen (1641) after restoration. (c) Fitzwilliam Museum |
The painting as it looked before. (c) Fitzwilliam Museum |