Lot 135: Jacob Jan van der Maaten (1820-1879)

Jacob Jan van der Maaten (1820-1879)
De oogst: the harvest
signed and dated 'JJ vd Maaten ft 1876' (lower left)
oil on canvas
81 x 150.5 cm.

Artist Society Pulchri Studio, The Hague (is has been suggested it was a gift to Pulchri Studio from the son of the artist).
The Pulchri Studio Sale, Glerum, The Hague, 22 June 1998, lot 125, where acquired by the present owner.

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The art historian drs. Fred Leeman suggests in the entry of the catalogue of the Pulchri Studio sale, that the present lot is a second version made by the artist in 1876 after his famous painting 'The Harvest' (1862) with which he had tremendous success on the yearly exhibitions of Leevende Meesters in 1863, 1864 and 1865. A lithograph of this work was illustrated in the Kunstkronijk in 1862 and was titled 'De laatste kerkgang'. It is known that Vincent van Gogh had this lithograph pinned to the walls of his studio in Paris and Amsterdam in the 1870's and it has proved to be a huge inspriration for him. According to an annotation in the archives of the RKD in The Hague the present lot depicts a view on the village Vaassen and the forest of Cannenburgh.