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Joseph Bles
Den Haag 1825-1875
A fair on the Grote Markt in The Hague with the Sint. Jacobskerk in the distance, oil on panel 83,1 x 118 cm., signed l.r.
913502/Coll.III cv

Provenance: veiling Van Marle & Bignell, Den Haag, 'E.S. Faulbach e.a.', 29 sept. 1956, lotnr. 12 (met afb.); Kunsthandel Pieter A. Scheen, Den Haag.
Literature: Pieter A. Scheen, 'Lexicon Nederlandse Beeldende Kunstenaars 1750-1850', Den Haag 1970, afb. 134; Michiel van der Mast, Charles Dumas (red.), 'Van Gogh en Den Haag', Zwolle/Den Haag 1990, pag. 87, afb. 100.

Price band: between 50.000 and 100.000 euro

Joseph Bles was a pupil of The Hague painter Salomon Verveer. He continued in the tradition of his mentor by painting sunny cityscapes and Scheveningen beach scenes with boats and fishermen, sometimes with convivial groups of people as staffage. Due to the highly narrative and often humorous content of his work, he was sometimes compared to genre painters like D. Bles and A.H. Bakker Korff, whose paintings often provided a sharp and funny comment of their age.