Anton Mauve artwork • painting • previously for sale Sheep feeding
Anton Mauve
Zaandam 1838-1888 Arnhem
1838-1888
Sheep feeding
oil on canvas 55.5 x 80.7 cm, signed l.r.
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: veiling (of verkooptentoonstelling) Anderson Galleries, New York, 14 april 1926, (lot)nr. 35 (met afb.); John J. Albright (1848-1931), Buffalo (NY), Verenigde Staten, 1931; part. bezit Verenigde Staten.
Literature: A.C. Loffelt, 'Anton Mauve 1838-1888' in: 'Het schildersboek. Nederlandsche schilders der negentiende eeuw in monographieën door tijdgenooten', Amsterdam 1899, afb. pag. 9.
Exhibited: Buffalo (NY), Verenigde Staten, Albright Art Gallery (thans Albright-Knox Art Gallery), bruikleen van John J. Albright; Hilversum, Museum Hilversum, 'Erfgooiers. Inrichters van het landschap', 21 sept. 2008-1 febr. 2009; Hilversum, Museum Hilversum, 'De Stad', 1 april-18 sept. 2011.
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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