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Jacob Henricus Maris
Dutch, 1837–1899
View of a Dutch City with the Schreierstoren in Amsterdam
1873
This view of a canal is not meant to replicate a specific place, but instead evokes the city of Amsterdam. Jacob Maris included distinct architectural details such as the Schreierstoren fortress, with its conical roof on the left, and a drawbridge in the distance from the Geldersekade canal. By integrating these sites into a quintessential Dutch cityscape—red brick buildings against an expansive cloud-filled sky—Maris developed a fictional scene that conveys the character of cities in the Netherlands. This tradition was also practiced by seventeenth-century Dutch landscape painters who combined various architectural monuments in single images to capture the overall impression of a place.
Image Caption
Jacob Henricus Maris, View of a Dutch City with the Schreierstoren in Amsterdam, 1873, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.803
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
14 9/16 x 22 3/8 in. (37 x 56.8 cm)
Frame: 20 7/8 x 28 5/8 x 2 7/8 in. (53 x 72.7 x 7.3 cm)
Object Number
1955.803
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
Off View
Select Bibliography
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. Southampton (NY): Parrish Art Museum.. In Support of Liberty: European Paintings at the Pedestal Fund Art Loan Exhibition. June 29-Sept. 1, 1986; National Academy of Design, New York, Sept. 18-Dec. 7, 1986. Cat. by Maureen C. O'Brien. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Yvonne von Eekelen. G. H. Breitner: De Oorsprong van het moment. (Cat. of exh. June 7-July 2).. Der Haag: Panorama Mesdag.. Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.
Provenance
[Obach, London, in 1908]; S. von Denvies; James G. Shepherd, Scranton and New York (by 1913–d. 1935); Mrs. James G. Shepherd, New York, his wife, by inheritance (in 1935, her sale, American Art Association, New York, 7 Nov. 1935, no. 70, ill., sold to Woods); W. H. Woods (from 1935); [Parish-Watson, New York, consigned to Knoedler, Nov. 1938]; [Knoedler, New York, sold to Clark, 5 Jan. 1939]; Robert Sterling Clark (1939–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.