Anton Mauve artwork • painting • for sale Under the trees
Anton Mauve
Zaandam 1838-1888 Arnhem
1838-1888
Under the trees
oil on canvas 51.6 x 81.2 cm, signed l.l.
This painting is for sale.
Price: € 29,500
Provenance: coll. Sir John C.F.S. Day (1826-1908), Londen; veiling Christie's, Londen, 13 en 14 mei 1909; part. bezit Groot-Brittannië.
Literature: R.A.M. Stevenson, 'Sir John Day's Pictures', 'The Art Journal', nov. 1893, pag. 312 (met afb.); Willemijn Lindenhovius (red.), 'The Glasgow Boys. Schots impressionisme (1880-1900)', Assen 2015, pag. 113 (met afb. in kleur).
Exhibited: Assen, Drents Museum, 'The Glasgow Boys. Schots impressionisme (1880-1900)', 22 sept. 2015-7 febr. 2016; Veenendaal, Museum Veenendaal, ‘De Haagse School: Hollandse pracht’, 1 april-30 aug. 2017.
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. Gabriel. In his paintings he combines landscape and animals. After some wanderings he settled in The Hague in 1871. Later he moved to 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.
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