Willem Maris
Den Haag 1844-1910
Ducks and ducklings by the waterside, oil on canvas 23,5 x 41,3 cm., signed l.l.
611433/Coll.I cv
Price band: between 25.000 and 50.000 euro
Willem Maris was the younger brother of Jacob and Matthijs, with whom he shared a studio in The Hague. He preferred to paint landscapes abounding in water, with ducks or cattle in marshy pastures on a ditch or watercourse. Maris was mainly concerned in conveying the way in which light touched his subjects. ‘I don’t paint cows, I paint the effects of light’, he once said about his work. For this reason he is sometimes called the ‘Impressionist’ of the Hague School.