Two Amsterdam maids
Oil on canvas, 59 x 46 cm.
Signed lower right: GH Breitner
Painted about 1890
A typical subject of Breitner is the working people in the streets of Amsterdam, maybehe is inspired by his own photographic work. He made hundreds of photographs of the live in the inner city of Amsterdam, using the characteristic spots for his impressionistic paintings.
Provenance:
Collection H. Loeber, Laren
Expositions:
Breitner tentoonstelling, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 1938, nr. 132.
