Scheveningen

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Scheveningen

Artist Jacob Maris (Dutch, 1837-1899)

Place of OriginNetherlands

Date1879

Dimensions21 3/4 × 16 3/4 in. (55.2 × 42.5 cm)

Mediumoil on canvas

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LineGift of Arthur J. Secor

Object number

1922.32

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Published ReferencesToledo Museum of Art Museum News, no. 41, April 1922, repr.

Godwin, Blake-More, Catalogue of European Paintings, Toledo, 1939, p. 134, repr. p.135.

Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, European Paintings, Toledo, 1976, p. 105, pl. 158.

Exhibition HistorySouthampton, N.Y., Parrish Art Museum, William Merritt Chase in the Company of Friends, 1979, p. 64, no. 73.Label TextAround 1870 a distinct group of painters emerged in The Netherlands in the city of The Hague. These artists, known as the Hague School, distinguished themselves by their exceptional rendering of “moody” atmospheric and light effects, achieved largely through tonal qualities rather than color. Jacob Maris was born in The Hague and received his initial artistic training there, but spent several years in Paris, where he turned from painting genre scenes to painting landscapes. After returning to The Hague in 1871, his style increasingly broadened, becoming more atmospheric, and he became one of the leading artists of the Hague School. Close to The Hague, the fishing village and beach at Scheveningen, depicted here, were favorite subjects of Hague School artists.