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Anthonij 'Anton' Mauve
Zaandam 1838-1888 Arnhem
Sheep watering by a river, oil on canvas 60,5 x 90,2 cm., signed l.r.
913515/Coll.III cv

Provenance: kunsthandel Goupil & Cie., Londen; Daniel and Justina G. Catlin, St. Louis, Verenigde Staten, 1904-1917; door hen geschonken aan het City Art Museum of St. Louis (thans Saint Louis Art Museum), St. Louis, Verenigde Staten, inv.nr. 10:17.
Literature: tent.cat. St. Louis, 'Louisiana Purchase Exposition', 1904, pag. 69, cat.nr. 7; tent.cat. St. Louis, City Art Museum of St. Louis, '"The Home Exhibition": A Collection of Paintings owned in St. Louis and lent to the Museum', 1911, pag. 77, cat.nr. 50 (met afb.); 'The Daniel Catlin Memorial Collection of Paintings', 'Bulletin of the City Art Museum of St. Louis', vol. 3, 1917, pag. 6; 'Recent Accessions', 'Bulletin of the City Art Museum of St. Louis', vol. 3, 1917, pag. 12; City Art Museum of St. Louis, 'Illustrated Catalogue of Paintings with Biographical Data and Descriptive Notes', St. Louis 1918, pag. 76, 105-106, cat.nr. M23; tent.cat. St. Louis, City Art Museum of St. Louis, 'Summer Loan Exhibition: Paintings of the Modern Dutch School owned in St. Louis', 1922, cat.nr. 42; 'City Art Museum Catalogue of Paintings', City Art Museum of Saint Louis, 1924, pag. 57, 62-63, cat.nr. M23 (met afb.); 'City Art Museum Catalogue of Paintings', City Art Museum of St. Louis, 1924, pag. 46, cat.nr. K5; T.B. Brumbaugh, 'Lost in Storage; Ludwig Knaus in American Collections', 'Art Journal' 27 (1968), pag. 264-265 (met afb).

Price band: between 100.000 and 500.000 euro

Anton Mauve is one of the foremost painters of the Hague School. He received his training from the animal painters P.F. van Os and Wouterus Verschuur. He also worked for a time in the Gelderland village of Oosterbeek with P.J.C. Gabriël. In his paintings he combines landscape and animals. After some wanderings he settled in The Hague in 1871, later in Laren, where he painted the heathland with herds of woolly sheep melting into the silver grey tones of the landscape. One of his favourite spots was an area of waste land situated just outside Laren, which later became known as the Mauve Sands.