Attention is called to the almost perfect composition of this picture. It presents two Katwyk women, who having stopped in their stroll along the beach, had fallen into the natural attitude of their class and stood a while gossiping, catching upon their shoulders the weak, waning light of the setting sun, their united forms casting a long, faint shadow upon the sand. The figures tone in wonderfully with the splendid background of sea and sky, and bring sea, sky and sand together into a perfect picture, whose horizontal and perpendicular lines are relieved and balanced by the curved and angular ones of the sail, tackle, hull and boom.