Amsterdam

Artist Jacob Maris (Dutch, 1837-1899)

Dateabout 1880-1899

Dimensions19 1/8 x 31 in. (48.5 x 78.5 cm)

Mediumoil on canvas

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1925.42

Not on View

Label TextThe 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 . . ..”Published ReferencesDeBock, Jacob Maris, London, n. d., repr p. 135.

Godwin, Blake-More, Catalogue of European Paintings, Toledo, 1939, p. 136, repr. p. 137.

Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, European Paintings, Toledo, 1976, p. 105, ppl. 159.

Exhibition HistoryHolland, Michigan, De Pree Art Center & Gallery, Dutch Art and Modern Life: 1882-1982, 1982, no. 4, p. 37, repr.