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Boat with a Pollard Willow
Also titled Boot met knotwilg
Matthijs Maris (The Hague, 1839–1917)
1863
- Medium
- panel, paper, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 23 cm x width 30 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- C.D. Reich Bequest
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
This small painting was probably executed en plein air, much as the artist in this boat is doing. A piece of paper is clipped to the lid of his paintbox. He uses a maulstick as a support while painting. The brilliant backlighting creates a powerful light-dark contrast in this painting. A striking element of the composition is the diagonal placement of the pollard willow, which blocks the view of the landscape.
