MAUVE, Anton
(b. 1838, Zaandam, d. 1888, Arnhem)

Laren Woman with Goat

1885
Oil on canvas, 50 x 75 cm
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague

Mauve, a cousin of van Gogh, was primarily drawn to pasture landscapes and street scenes of considerable colourist sophistication. His contemporaries admired the silvery and diffuse light in his paintings, his relaxed brushwork, and his atmospherics, as in the present painting.




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