Fine painting by Hendrick de Meijer showing Dutch fishermen offloading their daily catch on the beach near Scheveningen. One looks out on numerous fishing boats on the beach and a few still at sea, people (mostly fishermen) and animals, and an elaborate horse-drawn carriage appears in the foreground with the church of Scheveningen directly behind it in the background. De Meijer (Rotterdam ca. 1620-ca. 1689) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter of the "Albert Cuyp School". The painting is monogrammed in the bottom left corner "HDM".
Provenance: (possibly) from the collection of Nicolas-Marie Baron Clary (1820-1869) in Paris, probably mentioned in the inventory made just after his death on 27 January 1869: no. 143 "Meyer - Plage de Schevelengen"; later part of a private collection in Paris and after that of a private collection in the Netherlands.
In very good condition. RKDartists: https://rkd.nl/artists/55733; Schadee, Rotterdamse meesters uit de Gouden Eeuw, p. 288; Wurzbach, Niederländisches künstler-lexicon... vol. 2, pp. 156-157.