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Cityscape
Also titled Stadsgezicht
Jacob Maris (The Hague, 1837–1899)
c. 1885 - c. 1887
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 12.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
Maris’s city views are not topographically accurate, which is why they were given neutral titles. He was interested above all in composition and atmosphere. The painter himself said: ‘If I feel it is necessary to interrupt the long, straight roof lines, I simply add a domed roof, especially where the sky or cloud formation calls for such support. Why should I not be allowed to build my own cities?’
