# The Truncated Windmill

- By: Jacob Maris (The Hague, 1837–1899)
- Date: 1872
- Medium: canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: height 45 cm x width 112.5 cm
- Credit line: Gift of Mr and Mrs Drucker-Fraser, Montreux
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-2458--078cbf681341605b2e805cfe0828c9ac)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/67c0ad48d66c6a1e6f077fa20c3a2fac.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.