Matthijs Maris (1839-1917) - Marktgezicht

Dit betreft een zeldzaam schilderij van de raadselachtige schilder Matthijs Maris 1839-1917.
Een marktgezicht sterk en mysterieus geschilderd.
Het werk is ongeveer te dateren rond 1870.
Het schilderij is ergens in de 20ste eeuw bedoekt en op een nieuw spiraam gezet en verkeert verder in een zeer redelijke staat.
Gesigneerd rechtsonder met monogram MM zoals hij vaak deed.
De maten van het doek zonder lijst gemeten zijn 24,5cm x 32cm.
De orginele lijst is erbij maar verdient wel wat aandacht en is niet helemaal gaaf.
Schilderijen van deze raadselachtige schilder zijn gezocht en een verrijking in iedere verzamaling.

There was bitter poverty for him, as for so many artists at that time in Paris, so he went back to work. His style changed very little and was more reminiscent of the earlier period. Later he would distance himself from these works, dismissing them as 'potboilers', only painted in order to put food on the table.

An art dealer Daniel Cottier convinced him to settle in London, which he did in 1877. There he painted more imaginative scenes: fairytale characters and enchanted castles. He also painted a number of brides in fine gray tones, delicate and hazy like a dream. He made portraits, especially of the children of friends such as Baby lessor (private collection, 1880) and Barije Swan (Gemeentemuseum, 1887), the fragile child in her white and gray painted lace dress with fine color accents of yellow lemon and the blue ribbons. Children, whether or not combined with animals, were always a favorite subject. He painted portraits and figure in gray-brown tones in many layers, using dry loose paint. The image is as it were veiled in mist.

Maris died in London on 22 August 1917, when he was seventy-eight, following a short illness, and was buried there.