George Hendrik Breitner artwork • watercolour • drawing • previously for sale Alley in Rotterdam with laundress
George Hendrik Breitner
Rotterdam 1857-1923 Amsterdam
1857-1923
Alley in Rotterdam with laundress
watercolour on paper 39.1 x 25.7 cm, signed l.l. and dated '80
This work on paper was previously for sale.
Literature: tent.cat. Den Haag, Kunstmuseum, 'Breitner vs Israels - Vrienden en rivalen', 2020, afb. in kleur pag. 40; tent.cat. Den Haag, Museum Panorama Mesdag, 'De schilders van Panorama van Scheveningen', 2021, pag. 49, afb. 30 (in kleur).
Exhibited: Den Haag, Kunstmuseum, 'Breitner vs Israels - Vrienden en rivalen', 1 febr.- 6 sept. 2020; Den Haag, Museum Panorama Mesdag, 'De schilders van Panorama van Scheveningen', 28 maart-26 sept. 2021.
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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