# The Bridge

- By: Jacob Maris (The Hague, 1837–1899)
- Date: c. 1879
- Medium: canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: depth 11 cm
- Credit line: C.D. Reich Bequest
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-2988--6328e0180ee94e5249a0b8d2118ecfb4)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/1ba51755b962590b2c3d1e2b28e1d37e.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.