Willem Maris artwork • painting • previously for sale Ducks on the riverbank
Willem Maris
Den Haag 1844-1910
1844-1910
Ducks on the riverbank
oil on canvas 56.0 x 111.0 cm, signed l.r. and dated 1870
This painting was previously for sale.
Literature: Joost Bergman, Nico de Reus, 'Willem Maris. Impressionist van de Haagse School', Zwolle/Den Haag 2012, pag. 55, pag. 61 (met afb. 59 op pag. 60).
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.
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