keuraankunst

Willem Maris
Den Haag 1844-1910
Milking time, oil on canvas 63 x 78,3 cm., signed l.l.

Provenance: veiling C.L.C. Voskuil & Co., Amsterdam, 29 jan. 1901, lotnr. 95 (met afb.); Kunsthandel A. Preyer, Amsterdam, inv.nr. 1316; Kunsthandel M. Newman Ltd., Londen; veiling Christie's, Laren, 1980, lotnr. 555
Literature: Nelly de Zwaan, 'Nederland uit de kunst: 365 dagen kijken en lezen', Warnsveld 2005, 12 mei (met afb. in kleur); Joost Bergman, Nico de Reus, 'Willem Maris. Impressionist van de Haagse School', Zwolle/Den Haag 2012, pag. 108 (met afb. 118 (in kleur) op pag. 109).

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.