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Summer Day
Also titled Zomerdag
Johan Hendrik Weissenbruch (The Hague, 1824–1903)
c. 1870 - c. 1903
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 19 cm x width 31 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
Instead of a traditional mill, Weissenbruch now painted a modern pumping engine, which regulated the level of the water in the polder. He probably made this oil sketch somewhere outside of The Hague. Weissenbruch tacked the sheet of paper onto the lid of his paintbox: the tiny holes are still visible in the corners. Back in his studio, he incorporated the motif into one of his completed paintings.
