A Girl Seated Outside a House

[kavery]

A Girl Seated Outside a House

Jacob Maris
1837-1899


The girl in the painting is sitting in the garret of a house, with a view of Montigny-sur-Loing in the background.

Although the girl is dressed in plain, poor clothes, she is trimming her hat with bright flowers.

The sunflowers in this painting appear to be an emblem of hope, the prospect of a brighter future.

The Dutch artist Maris worked in Paris in the 1870s. Van Gogh painted his sunflowers in the same era, and although the artists may even have been acquainted, Van Gogh's vision of sunflowers is remarkably different from this quiet, traditional scene.



Jacob Maris co-founded The Hague School of Painters, a group whose inspiration was drawn from the landscape and lives of local peasants and fishermen. In 1857 he and his brother accepted a commission from the Princess of Prussia. This work sent him around Europe until 1865 until the money ran out and he settled in Paris. He concentrated on portrait painting until he returned to The Hague in 1871 when his focus shifted to towns and landscapes. Maris' ability to create atmospheric skies which dominated the subjects of the paintings made his work both influential to his contemporaries and memorable to this day.

Comments

[kavery.livejournal.com]

а, цветовой гаммой немного похоже.

[ermenengilda.livejournal.com]

Тут не мрачная башня, а колокольня :-))

[ermenengilda.livejournal.com]

Какая нарядненькая.

Надо понимать, это после или вместо воскресной Мессы.