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A Bleaching Field
Also titled Een bleekveld
Jacob Maris (The Hague, 1837–1899)
1870
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 12 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of the heirs of W.J. van Randwijk, The Hague
- 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
Women are busy doing laundry near a French village church. One of them spreads the linen on the bleaching field, while another fetches water from the pump. Maris divided the space into three areas by placing a fence between the women and an autumnal-brown hedge before the church. The saplings’ delicate branches reinforce the horizontal lines of the composition.
