Amsterdam
Artist: Jacob Maris (Dutch, 1837-1899)
Date: about 1880-1899
Dimensions:
19 1/8 x 31 in. (48.5 x 78.5 cm)
Medium: oil on canvas
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1925.42
Label Text:The group of late 19th-century Dutch artists known as the Hague School for the city where they were based preferred to work out-of-doors, remaining true to what they saw as the gray tonality of the Dutch countryside, affected by the moist climate of The Netherlands. Hague School artists, including one of the most prominent, Jacob Maris, sought to create a mood, while at the same time moving away from conventional, romanticized and sentimental images.
A critic wrote of the Hague School in 1899: ““[Dutch art] is Democratic . . . the artist of the Lowlands paints nature as he sees it, truthfully, lovingly. Strained idealism, the requisite chivalry, mythology, has no place in Dutch art. … Truth, simplicity, dignity were and are the golden rules of Dutch art . . ..”
A critic wrote of the Hague School in 1899: ““[Dutch art] is Democratic . . . the artist of the Lowlands paints nature as he sees it, truthfully, lovingly. Strained idealism, the requisite chivalry, mythology, has no place in Dutch art. … Truth, simplicity, dignity were and are the golden rules of Dutch art . . ..”
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