George Hendrik Breitner artwork • watercolour • drawing • previously for sale Two servants busy talking
George Hendrik Breitner
Rotterdam 1857-1923 Amsterdam
1857-1923
Two servants busy talking
black chalk on paper 23.5 x 16.5 cm, signed l.r.
This work on paper was previously for sale.
Literature: tent.cat. 's-Hertogenbosch, Kunsthandel Borzo, 'Najaarstentoonstelling 1979: Schilderijen en aquarellen', cat.nr. 9; tent.cat. Laren, Singermuseum, 'G.H. Breitner 1857-1923: aquarellen en tekeningen', cat.nr. 61.
Exhibited: 's-Hertogenbosch, Kunsthandel Borzo, 'Najaarstentoonstelling 1979: Schilderijen en aquarellen', 6-27 okt. 1979; Laren, Singermuseum, 'G.H. Breitner 1857-1923: aquarellen en tekeningen', 23 april-26 juni 1983 (particuliere bruikleen).
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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