Lot Essay
It has been suggested that Mesdag painted this work during his stay in Vries, Drente.
See colour illustration
See colour illustration
Details
Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1851-1915)
An extensive polderlandscape with a farmer ploughing
signed on the stretcher H.W. Mesdag, oil on canvas
50 x 78.5 cm
Executed circa 1877
An extensive polderlandscape with a farmer ploughing
signed on the stretcher H.W. Mesdag, oil on canvas
50 x 78.5 cm
Executed circa 1877
Provenance
Panorama Mesdag, The Hague, inventory april 1917, no.51 (studie man met ploeg)
Literature
Johan Poort, H.W. Mesdag, oeuvrecatalogus 1989, p.407, no.41.10