Joseph Bles artwork • painting • previously for sale Elegant figures strolling along a waterway
Joseph Bles
Den Haag 1825-1875
1825-1875
Elegant figures strolling along a waterway
oil on panel 37.1 x 49.7 cm, signed l.r.
This painting was previously for sale.
Literature: Afgebeeld in 'The Dutch Art Diary 2003'; Nelly de Zwaan, 'Nederland uit de kunst: 365 dagen kijken en lezen', Warnsveld 2005, 7 aug. (met afb. in kleur).
Joseph Bles was a pupil of The Hague painter Salomon Verveer. He continued in the tradition of his mentor by painting sunny cityscapes and Scheveningen beach scenes with boats and fishermen, sometimes with convivial groups of people as staffage. Due to the highly narrative and often humorous content of his work, he was sometimes compared to genre painters like D. Bles and A.H. Bakker Korff, whose paintings often provided a sharp and funny comment of life in their time.
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