Jan de Haas artwork • painting • previously for sale In the meadow
Jan de Haas
Hedel 1832-1908 Königswinter (Duitsland)
1832-1908
In the meadow
oil on panel 44.6 x 63.0 cm, signed l.r. and dated 1869 on reverse
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: E.L. Jacobson, Den Haag, 1869; Kunsthandel Willy de Jonge, Antwerpen.
Literature: tent.cat. Den Haag, Teeken-Akademie, 'Tentoonstelling van Kunstwerken van Levende Meesters', 1869, cat.nr. 141.
Exhibited: Den Haag, Teeken-Akademie, 'Tentoonstelling van Kunstwerken van Levende Meesters', 1869.
Jan de Haas was a masterful painter of cows, producing landscapes with prosperous red-and-white and Frisian cattle and other robustly modelled animals. The landscape is clearly secondary to the animals in his work. Following in the footsteps of Willem Roelofs, with whom he had become acquainted in Oosterbeek, De Haas moved to Brussels in 1857, making regular trips back to the Netherlands to gain inspiration. He is also known to have painted the livestock in many pictures by Willem Roelofs, P.J.C. Gabriel and J.Th. Abels.
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