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A Dutch Road

Artist Anton Mauve (Dutch, 1838-1888)

Place of OriginNetherlands

Dateabout 1880

DimensionsPainting: 20 × 14 1/2 in. (50.8 × 36.8 cm)
Frame: 29 × 23 3/8 × 3 in. (73.7 × 59.4 × 7.6 cm)

Mediumoil on canvas

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LineGift of Arthur J. Secor

Object number

1922.22

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 33

Label TextLed by Anton Mauve, the group of Dutch painters known as the Hague School distinguished itself by its exceptional rendering of moody atmospheric effects. As a Dutch critic wrote in 1875, “The artists try, by preference, to render mood; and they give precedence to tone above color…. They have revealed the poetry of gray in a hitherto unprecedented manner.” Mauve’s A Dutch Road reveals his characteristic “poetry of gray” and his debt to the great Dutch 17th-century masters of landscape (see galleries 23, 24, and 27). Finding inspiration in what he considered the heroic aspects of everyday life, Mauve, along with other 19th-century artists like Jules Breton (look for his painting The Shepherd’s Star), tried to depict nature and the “simple life” that was being swept away by the Industrial Revolution and rapid urbanization.Published ReferencesToledo Museum of Art Museum News, no. 41, April 1922, repr.

Godwin, Blake-More, Catalogue of European Paintings, Toledo, 1939, p. 142, repr. p. 143.

Sutton, D., "Nineteenth-Century Painting: Trends and Cross-Currents," Apollo, LXXXVI, Dec. 1967, p. 491, fig. 16.

Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, European Paintings, Toledo, 1976, pp. 109, 110, pl. 165.

Murray, Ann, "'Strange and Subtle Perspective...': Van Gogh, The Hague School and the Dutch Landscape Tradition," Art History, vol. 3, no. 4, Dec. 1980, p. 416, repr. pl. 29.

Muller, Sheila D., Dutch Art, An Encyclopedia, New York, 1997, p. 239, pl. 10 (col.) [after p. 90].

Sund, Judy, Van Gogh, London, Phaidon, 2002, repr. p. 46.

van Os, Henk ed., and Louise O. Fresco, The Discovery of the Netherlands: Four Centuries of Landscape Painting by Dutch Masters, Netherlands, NAi publishers, 2008, p. 23, [30], repr.(col.) p. 93.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art Masterworks, Toledo, 2009, p. 267, repr. (col.).

Clingerman, Forrest, "Walking in the Frame: A Theological Exploration of Pilgrimage along Anton Mauve's A Dutch Road," Literature and Theology: An International Journal of Religion, Theory, and Culture, vol. 23, no. 1, March 2009, pp. 18-20, repr. p. 21.

Teylers Museum, Anton Mauve 1838-1888, Bussum, Thoth, 2009, no. 189, pp. 157-158, repr. (col.).

Lindenhovius, Willemijn ed., The Glasgow Boys: Schots Impressionisme, 1880-1900, Zwolle, Wbooks, 2015, p. 167, repr. (col.) fig. 85, p. 167.

Exhibition HistorySouthampton, NY, Parrish Art Museum, William Merritt Chase in the Company of Friends, 1979, p. 65, no. 75.

Paris, Grand Palais; London, Royal Academy of Art; The Hague, Haags Gemeentemuseum, L'Ecole de la Haye, 1983, no. 97, p. 240, repr. p. 240 and (col.) p. 242.

Apeldorn, Netherlands, CODA Museum, The Discovery of the Netherlands: Four Centuries of Landscape Painting by Dutch Masters, 2008, p. 23, [30], rep. p. 93 (col.).

Laren, Netherlands, Singer Laren, Anton Mauve 1838-1888, Sept. 18, 2009 - Jan. 17, 2010, cat. no. 13, p. 158, fig. 189 (col.), p. 157 (duo exhibition with Teylers Museum Haarlem).