Summerwealth
Oil on canvas 51 x 75 cm
Signed lower right: Gerard Bilders
Painted about 1860
Painted at the borders of the Rhine in Oosterbeek province of Gelderland. Its sunny character is a knew way of painting as a start of the dutch impressionism the Hague School. The typical function of the lightcatching cow is a special item of this school.
Provenance:
Collection G.A. de Heus
Auction:
Frederik Muller & Co, Amsterdam, 03-03-1903, nr. 22.
Christie's, Laren (NH), 10-06-1975, nr. 18.
Exposition:
-" Koninklijke Academie 300 jaar. Haagse school in Pulchri, Pulchri studio denHaag, 1982, cat. nr. 9.
-"de Haagse school", Museum Kempenland, 04--7/06-09 1992, cat. nr.7.
-"De Haagse School", Jakob Smitsmuseum Mol, 30-03/28-04 1996, cat. nr.3.
-"Zomergezichten", Gem. Expositieruimte, Kampen, 06-07/ 22-09, 1996.
-"De Haagse School", Mus. Jakob Smits Mol, april 1996, cat. nr. 4.
