Jacob Maris (1837-1899)

A Dutch landscape with two windmills by moonlight

signed 'J Maris' (lower left)
Painted circa 1882.

oil on canvas, 95x127 cm

Exhibited:
-Amsterdam, Arti et Amicitiae, 'A Preyer collection', 16 January-13 February 1912. -The Hague, Kunsthandel A. Preyer, 'Exhibition of 100 selected paintings from the A. Preyer collection', 1 May 1912-1913.

Literature:
-Kunsthandel A. Preyer, '100 selected pictures of the Dutch School from the collection of the A. Preyer's Artgalleries', The Hague 1912, nr. 19 'The moon', with ill.

Provenance:
-With Kunsthandel A. Preyer, The Hague, by 1912.
-Collection Mr. R.A.W.J.J. Cremers, The Hague, acquired from the above. -Thence by descence to the present owner.

This painting has been in the collection of the art collector Mr. R.A.W.J.J. Cremers in The Hague. It was offered in his auction at Frederik Muller & Cie in the Doelenstraat, Amsterdam, on 26 October 1920 as lot 16 'Claire de lune'; the painting remained unsold. Since then the work stayed in the family until now.

In this 'vente publique' of the 'Tableaux et Aquarelles Modernes' from the collection of Mr. R.A.W.J.J. Cremers, the painting was described as 'Un des chefs- d'oeuvre du maître', one of the masterpieces of the artist.