George Hendrik Breitner artwork • painting • previously for sale Dutch artillerymen on their horses
George Hendrik Breitner
Rotterdam 1857-1923 Amsterdam
1857-1923
Dutch artillerymen on their horses
oil on panel 30.5 x 43.3 cm, signed l.l. and painted ca. 1897-1903
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: E.J. van Wisselingh & Co., Amsterdam, inv.nr. 2585x (als 'Cavalerie in de duinen'); veiling J.J. Biesing, Den Haag, 31 jan. 1911, lotnr. 37; coll. Lenaertz Wagner, Den Haag; veiling A. Mak, Amsterdam, 'Collections Lenaertz Wagner', 19 dec. 1922, lotnr. 54; coll. A.C. van Ommen van Guylik, Laren, 1928; coll. C. Thomassen, Laren; coll. J.H. Thomassen-van Ommen van Guylik, Laren, 1947.
Literature: tent.cat. Den Haag, Gemeente Museum voor Moderne Kunst, 'Breitner Tentoonstelling', 1928, pag. 38, cat.nr. 32; tent.cat. Brussel, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 'Rétrospective de l'oeuvre de Breitner', 1932, pag. 25, cat.nr. 22, op etiket verso vermeld als cat.nr. 21 (als 'Le Cheval blanc'); tent.cat. Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 'Breitner en Amsterdam', 1947, cat.nr. 124.
Exhibited: Den Haag, Gemeente Museum voor Moderne Kunst, 'Breitner Tentoonstelling', 10 nov.-9 dec. 1928; Brussel, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 'Rétrospective de l'oeuvre de Breitner', jan. 1932; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 'Breitner en Amsterdam', 26 sept.-28 nov. 1947.
G.H. Breitner is an important impressionist painter of Amsterdam’s city views, setting down the street life onto canvas with bold, sweeping brushstrokes. He settled in the capital in 1886. Breitner also painted figures, nudes and military subjects – he was fascinated by horses and their riders. He etched as well but was a major Impressionist chiefly in his watercolours.
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