Matthijs Maris (The Hague 1839-1917 London)

The hay cart

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Matthijs Maris (The Hague 1839-1917 London)
The hay cart
signed with initials 'MM' (lower right)
oil on canvas
10.5 x 18 cm.
Painted circa 1860.

Provenance

with The French Gallery, London, as: Haycart.
with W.B. Paterson’s Gallery, London.
with Kunsthandel E.J. van Wisselingh & Co, Amsterdam, inv. no. 5226, 1929, as: the Haycart.
Acquired from the above Mrs. Groesbeek, Amsterdam, 1929.
with Kunsthandel E.J. van Wisselingh & Co, Amsterdam, inv. no. 5826, 1937, as: the Haycart.
Acquired from the above by Mr. H.J. de Lange, Wapenveld, 1937.
Mr. A. P. H. Stuyling de Lange, Wapenveld, 1972.
with Kunsthandel E.J. van Wisselingh & Co, Amsterdam, inv. no. 8893, 1972.
Acquired from the above by Mr. H. Blenken Blydenstein, Oldenzaal, 1972-1987.
with Kunsthandel E.J. van Wisselingh & Co, Naarden, as: de Hooiwagen, no. S 9615, where acquired by the present owner, by 1987, as: de Hooiwagen.

Lot Essay

Please compare the present lot to another version with a comparible composition in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, titled: Effect of Dawn or Twilight and dated '1860' (oil on paper laid down on panel, 17 x 30 cm. inv.no. CAI. 90). This work was bequeathed to the museum by Constantine Alexander Ionides in 1900. Kunsthandel E.J. van Wisselingh sold the present small sketch (10.5 x 18 cm.) to Mrs. Groesbeek in Amsterdam in 1929. Another version entitled Le Voiturier (28.5 x 38.5 cm.) was sold at the sale of Boussod & Valadon in The Hague in November 1903. This indicates that Maris probably painted this subject several times.

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