View of the Mill and Bridge on the Noordwest Buitensingel in The Hague
1873
Jacob Maris
Painter, Dutch, 1837 - 1899
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 81 x 144 cm (31 7/8 x 56 11/16 in.)
framed: 110.5 x 176.5 x 11.4 cm (43 1/2 x 69 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.) -
Accession Number
1999.56.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Sir Henry Thompson, 1st bt. [1820-1904].[1] George McCulloch [1848-1907], London, by 1903;[2] (his estate sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 23, 29, and 30 May 1913, 1st day, no. 35); (Henry Wallis & Son, London); purchased 30 October 1916 by Henry Clay Frick [1849-1919], Pride’s Crossing, Eagle Rock, Massachusetts, and New York;[3] by inheritance to his daughter, Helen Clay Frick [1888-1984], Pride’s Crossing; gift 19 October 1959 to her nephew, Dr. Henry Clay Frick, II [1919-2007], Alpine, New Jersey;[4] (Noortman [Maastricht] BV, Maastricht); purchased 16 June 1999 by NGA.
[1] Statement about the painting by Wallis & Son, and letter, Wallis & Son to Henry Clay Frick, 4 October 1916; copies in NGA curatorial files from: The Frick Collection/Frick Art Reference Library Archives, The Frick Collection Records, Henry Clay Frick Art Collection Files, TFC.100.10, Series I: Purchases, 1881-1920, Subseries 2: Purchase Files, 1896-1919, box 4, folder 13. Thompson was a prominent physician, surgeon, and professor at the Royal College of Surgeons in London.
[2] McCulloch lent the painting to a 1903 exhibition in London. Born in Glasgow, he made his fortune as a mine owner in New South Wales before he settled in London. There McCulloch befriended John Singer Sargent and amassed an important collection of works by then living artists.
[3] Letter, 30 October 1916, Henry Clay Frick to Wallis & Son, London; handwritten Ledger Pages showing paintings acquired December 31, 1912 – April 14, 1917, page dated 1916, entry dated October 30; typed List of Paintings Acquired December 29, 1910-August 23, 1919; 1920 Inventory of One East 70th Street, paintings in the Gallery; receipts and letter, 14 and 15 November 1916, Wallis & Son, London, to Henry Clay Frick; copies in NGA curatorial files from: The Frick Collection/Frick Art Reference Library Archives: The Frick Collection Records, Henry Clay Frick Art Collection Files, TFC.100.10, Series I: Purchases, 1881-1920, Subseries 2: Purchase Files, 1896-1919, box 4, folder 3, and Subseries 3: Lists, 1910-1920, box 5, folders 12 and 15; and The Frick Family Papers, Henry Clay Frick Papers, HCFF.1.1, Series I: Art Files, Purchases, 1881-1921, undated, box 10, folder 27.
[4] Information sheet on the painting, titled “A Dutch Landscape” or “Windmill and Locks;” copy in NGA curatorial files from: The Frick Collection/Frick Art Reference Library Archives, Helen Clay Frick Artwork Files, no. 318-10b.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1873
Possibly Salon, Palais des Champs-Élysées, Paris, 1873, no. 1006, as Canal en Hollande.
1903
Exhibition of a Selection of Works by Early and Modern Painters of the Dutch School, Art Gallery of the Corporation of London, 1903, no. 101, as River and Windmill.
1910
Selected Works by James Maris, Anton Mauve, H. Fantin-Latour, French Gallery, London, 1910, no. 25, repro., as The Two Windmills.
1938
Loan to display with permanent collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1938.
1942
Loan to display with permanent collection, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1942-1949.
1949
Exhibition of Paintings to Commemorate the Centenary of Henry Clay Frick, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1949-1950, no. 3.
1950
An Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of Helen C. Frick, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1950, no. 1, as Two Windmills.
1997
Langs velden en wegen. De verbeelding van het landschap in de 18de en 19de eeuw [On Country Roads and Fields: The depiction of the 18th- and 19th-century landscape], Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1997-1998, no. 78, repro.
Inscriptions
lower right: JMaris 73
Wikidata ID
Q20188769