Window mode follows your eyes with your camera, in this browser only: no picture or position leaves your device.
The Bridge
Also titled De brug
Jacob Maris (The Hague, 1837–1899)
c. 1879
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 11 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- C.D. Reich Bequest
- 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
Jacob Maris painted this bridge in The Hague, his city of residence. The farmer’s wife carrying two pails of milk with a yoke and the farmer in the sand barge attest to just how rural The Hague was at the time. A sketch of the same motif is also on display in this gallery. Maris captured the scene with powerful strokes. He made the sketch out of doors, and the worked-up painting in his studio.
