Northern European school oil painting on canvas depicting a seascape with figures, early 19th century. The painting, in accordance with 19th-century taste, is intended to propose more of a genre scene than a landscape: in fact, two figures stand out in the foreground, a man who is fishing with a fishing line and net and a woman who is looking at him sitting on a rock overlooking the water, anxious about the outcome of the fishing, which will presumably guarantee the couple's meal. The landscape around is that of a rocky coastal stretch, in a maritime inlet with a village on the other shore; a boat sails out to sea, of another only the flagpole can be seen behind the rock. Restored and restretched, the painting is presented in a style frame with several lacks. Size without frame: 54 x 64 cm.