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Duck heaven

Willem Mariscirca 1885

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Kunstmuseum
The Hague, Nederland

Willem Maris was the only Hague School painter who was self-taught. True, he had attended evening classes and his brothers must have taught him a thing or two when they happened to be in the Netherlands, but their influence on his work is relatively limited. Willem Maris painted highly individualistic and distinctive landscapes, usually featuring summer pastures bathed in sunshine and crossed by ditches and canals. In 1880 Hague journalist Johan Gram wrote, “Willem Maris has reaped praise for one subject in particular, and that is his ducks, which he paints wonderfully well. Sometimes the feathered creatures emerge from some obscure patch of leafy shade; sometimes they frolic and rock among the weed at the edge of a water-filled ditch.” Source: J.Sillevis, R. Doorn, H. Kraan (eds.), De Haagse School: De collectie van het Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague 1988.

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  • Titel: Duck heaven
  • Maker: Willem Maris
  • Levensduur van maker: 18 February 1844 - 10 October 1910
  • Nationaliteit van maker: Dutch
  • Plaats van overlijden van maker: The Hague, The Netherlands
  • Gender van maker: Male
  • Geboorteplaats van maker: The Hague, The Netherlands
  • Aanmaakdatum: circa 1885
  • Fysieke afmetingen: w829 x h617 cm (framed)
  • Alternate Titel: Eendenidylle
  • framing: Decorated wood and plaster frame, partially gilded
  • Type: paintings
  • Rechten: Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, purchased with the support of Vereniging Rembrandt, 1964
  • Materiaal: Oil on canvas
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