Willem Maris artwork • painting • previously for sale Ducks and ducklings by the waterside
Willem Maris
Den Haag 1844-1910
1844-1910
Ducks and ducklings by the waterside
oil on canvas 23.5 x 41.3 cm, signed l.l.
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: coll. Frits Philips, Eindhoven.
Exhibited: Scheveningen, Muzee Scheveningen, 'Schilderen en wonen op Scheveningen in de Belle Epoque', 4 juli-21 sept. 2008; Den Haag, Gemeentemuseum, 'Willem Maris (1844-1910) - Impressionist van de Haagse School', 21 jan.-9 april 2012.
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.
© Simonis & Buunk