Louis van Soest artwork • painting • previously for sale A pond in a snow-covered landscape
Louis van Soest
Poerworedjo (Indonesië, v/h Nederlands-Indië) 1867-1948 Den Haag
1867-1948
A pond in a snow-covered landscape
oil on canvas 75.1 x 120.5 cm, signed l.r.
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: Galerie E.E. Huisman, Den Haag, 1918.
Literature: Cyriel Buysse e.a., 'L'Art Belge en exil/Belgische kunst in ballingschap', Den Haag 1918, z.p. (afb. in advertentie Galerie E.E. Huisman, Den Haag).
Louis van Soest was a painter of the Veluwe region in the Netherlands, active in the same circle as Jan van Vuuren and Edzard Koning. His snowy landscapes bear the stamp of a true Dutch impressionist, depicting nature sometimes blanketed in downy white with blue-toned shadows, sometimes suffused with a haze of light. Or he painted the melting snow with rivulets of water and passages of bare earth in greyish-green and brown. Van Soest's pupils included Queen Wilhelmina.
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