Paul Joseph Constantin Gabriël (1828-1903)

Early morning in de Kamper polder

Details

Paul Joseph Constantin Gabriël (1828-1903)
Early morning in de Kamper polder
signed lower left Gabriel fc
oil on canvas
36.7 x 58.3 cm

Provenance

Anon. sale, Amsterdam, Mak van Waay, February 1938, lot 138.
B. Geus van den Heuvel; Sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby Mak van Waay, 26-27 April 1976, lot 266.

Exhibited

Schiedam, Stedelijk Museum, 1952-53, cat.no 24.
IJzendijke, Raadhuis, 1954, cat.no. 6.
Laren, Singer Museum, 1957, cat.no. 80.
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Van Romantiek tot Amsterdamse School, 1958, cat.no. C31.
Laren, Singer Museum, 1964, cat.no. 78 (illus.no. 78).

Lot Essay

In 1880 Gabriël explored the peat-fields and polders near Kampen together with the native artist W.B. Tholen, a pupil of Gabriël.
In the following decennium Gabriël repeatedly painted the subject, eventually culminating in the monumental 'Kamper Veenderij', 1890 (Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, inv. no. 2-1890). The present painting may also be compared with the painting 'Vroege Morgen', 1880 (Groninger Museum) and the watercolour of the same subject (Teylers Museum, Haarlem, inv. no. DD 10).
See colour illustration

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