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Carriages and Waiting Coachmen
Also titled Rijtuigen met wachtende koetsiers
Willem de Zwart (The Hague, 1862–1931)
c. 1890 - c. 1894
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 10.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- A. van Wezel Bequest, Amsterdam
- 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
It is a rainy day on the Malieveld, a large green in The Hague. The coachmen of the carriages for hire wait for passengers near the guardhouse. Coachmen generally wore colourful outfits, which in Amsterdam earned them the nickname ‘little monkeys’. Here, the bright colours are concealed under their rain capes. De Zwart, like Breitner, painted images of modern city life, but tended to favour tranquil street scenes.
