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The Truncated Windmill
Also titled De afgesneden molen
Jacob Maris (The Hague, 1837–1899)
1872
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 45 cm x width 112.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr and Mrs Drucker-Fraser, Montreux
- 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
After living in Paris for six years, around 1871 Jacob Maris returned to his native The Hague, moving into a studio on the Noordwestbuitensingel. He probably painted The Truncated Windmill from his window, which would explain its unusual cropping. The mill and the bridge recur frequently in Maris’s work, with or without houses, in ever-changing compositions.
