Willem Maris artwork • painting • for sale A polder landscape with farmer and barge
Willem Maris
Den Haag 1844-1910
1844-1910
A polder landscape with farmer and barge
oil on canvas 66.3 x 94.5 cm, painted ca. 1906
This painting is for sale.
price range: € 15,000 - € 25,000
Willem Maris was the younger brother of Jacob and Matthijs, with whom he shared a studio in The Hague. He preferred to paint landscapes abounding in water, with ducks or cattle in marshy pastures on a ditch or watercourse. Maris was mainly concerned in conveying the way in which light touched his subjects. ‘I don’t paint cows, I paint the effects of light’, he once said about his work. For this reason he is sometimes called the ‘Impressionist’ of the Hague School.