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George Hendrik Breitner artwork • watercolour • drawing • previously for sale Still life of roses

Breitner G.H.  | George Hendrik Breitner, Still life of roses, black chalk and watercolour on paper 26.3 x 37.6 cm

George Hendrik Breitner

Still life of roses
black chalk and watercolour on paper 26.3 x 37.6 cm

This work on paper was previously for sale.

Provenance: geschenk van de kunstenaar aan de schilder Jan Voerman sr., ca. 1888; kunsthandel Frans Buffa & Zonen, Amsterdam, inv.nr. 2027; mevrouw A.C. van Ommen van Guylik, Laren; erven Van Ommen van Guylik; mevrouw Ch.M. de Roy van Zuydewijn-Stuyt; collectie A.B. Osterholt, Amsterdam.
Literature: tent.cat. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum/Stedelijk Museum, (Historische tentoonstelling van de stad Amsterdam) 'Eeretentoonstelling van werken van G.H. Breitner als grootmeester der Amsterdamsche School', 1925, cat.nr. 3266; tent.cat. Brussel, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 'Rétrospective de l'oeuvre de Breitner', 1932, cat.nr. 66; tent.cat. Laren, Singer Museum, 'G.H. Breitner, aquarellen en tekeningen', 1983, pag. 24, cat.nr. 41.
Exhibited: Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum/Stedelijk Museum, (Historische tentoonstelling van de stad Amsterdam) 'Eeretentoonstelling van werken van G.H. Breitner als grootmeester der Amsterdamsche School', juli-sept. 1925; Brussel, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 'Rétrospective de l'oeuvre de Breitner', jan. 1932; Laren, Singer Museum, 'G.H. Breitner, aquarellen en tekeningen', 23 april-26 juni 1983; Eelde, Museum De Buitenplaats, 'Bloemen! van Jan Sluyters en tijdgenoten', 3 juli-19 sept. 2010.

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.


George Hendrik Breitner | Hussar on a horse, oil on panel, 30.8 x 42.2 cm, signed l.r.

George Hendrik Breitner

painting • for sale

Hussar on a horse


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