with the artist's studio stamp 'Atelier Isaac Israels' (lower right)

oil on canvas, 56x68 cm

Provenance:
-Auction, Marcel Diederiks, The Hague, 1989, where acquired by the present owner.

Please compare this painting to: -A sketch in pencil in the collection of the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem. -An oil sketch in Muzee Scheveningen: ‘Twee Scheveningse dames, de vriendinnen Arendje Roeleveld en Engeltje Westerduijn’, painted in 1934. Apparently these two are the same as the fisher women in the work now in auction. -A more detailed oil painting of ‘Twee Scheveningse meisjes’ on which the girls are painted with a view on the sea, which is in the collection of the Kunstmuseum The Hague, inv.no. 0332198.