Donkey Stand on the Beach at Scheveningen
Anton Mauve (1838 - 1888), c. 1876
oil on canvas, 37 cm x 48 cm
Credits: The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
Scheveningen was a tourist attraction already in the 19th century. Many Hague School artists also went to this seaside resort to record scenes of the sea and sometimes the visitors. Here Mauve painted the stand where the donkeys waited to take children for a ride for a few pennies.
Looking closely you can see that he first painted a couple of fishing boats at the left. He changed his mind and painted over them; their contours still vaguely shine through the top layer of paint.
Painting animals was Mauve’s speciality. Mesdag greatly admired his work. In fact, he owned fourteen paintings and drawings by him.
- Object number
- hwm0218
- Dimensions
- 37 cm x 48 cm, 69 cm x 79.5 cm, 12 cm
- Provenance
- Acquired by Hendrik Willem Mesdag, The Hague, in or before 1895; Collection Museum Mesdag donated by Hendrik Willem Mesdag and Sientje Mesdag-van Houten to the State of the Netherlands, 14 May 1903; Rijksmuseum H.W. Mesdag, The Hague, from 1 August 1903; in trust of the Mauritshuis, The Hague, between 1934 and 1990; in trust of the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam, from 1 April 1990; Museum Mesdag, in trust of the Van Gogh Museum Foundation, Amsterdam, from 1 July 1994, under the name of De Mesdag Collectie from 2011.
- artist
- Anton Mauve
- Credits
- The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
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