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Oostzijdse Mill along the River Gein by Moonlight
Also titled Oostzijdse molen aan het Gein bij maanlicht
Piet Mondriaan (Amersfoort, 1872–1944)
c. 1903
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 63 cm x width 75.4 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the BankGiro Lottery and the Rijksmuseum Fonds
- 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
This landscape clearly reveals how indebted Mondrian was to the Hague School as a young artist. A few years earlier, he had copied Paul Gabriël’s In the Month of July in the Rijksmuseum (on view in this gallery). Although the compositions resemble each other, the general impression in each case is entirely different. Mondrian modified the lines and colours in order to create a non-realistic, decorative painting.
