Fischer, die einen Ertrunkenen tragen

Fishermen carrying a Drowned Man

A huddled procession of fishermen come from the sea over windswept dunes, carrying their drowned companion. The artist made numerous preparatory studies in the fishing village of Zandvoort near Haarlem, before completing the picture in his Amsterdam studio. It was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1861 and in London the following year, establishing Israëls as the leading Dutch painter of his time.