“The crushed and hopeless forms of the people bringing home a fisherman drowned in his daily work are darkly framed against greyness in this compassionate scene of life and death by the North Sea. Dutch painter Israëls spent time living in Zandvoort, a fishing village near Haarlem in the Netherlands, before painting it in his Amsterdam studio. The closeness and common pain of the figures makes us feel the sorrow of an entire community. It is as if they have all drowned. The burden of grief won’t lift lightly. And beyond are the sea and sky, featureless, endless.”
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