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The Vegetable Garden
Also titled De moestuin
Anton Mauve (Zaandam, 1838–1888)
c. 1885 - c. 1888
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 61 cm x width 87 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
Mauve called himself a real ‘outdoors man’. From 1884 he regularly painted the vegetable and fruit gardens of farms. He used a bright palette instead of the greyish tones he had favoured a few years earlier. The vegetable garden here displays a wealth of green tonalities. The white accents of the linen and the woman’s cap lend depth and freshness to the image.
