Waterland with windmill
The fishing party
- Artist
- Wijnandus Johannes Josephus Nuijen (1813-1839)
- Year
- 1836
- Genre
- landscape
- Keywords
- boat, river
- Category
- painting
- Support
- canvas
- Technique
- oil
- Composition
- horizontal
- Measurements
- 105 x 158 cm
- Signed
- bottom right, W.J.J. Nuijen Bz f 36
- Location
- Museum depot
- Owner
- unknown
Description
Probably a fantasy on the exterior in Amsterdam
An idyllic river scene with sailboats in the background on the left and, in the foreground on the right, two rowboats moored to the bank, carrying groups possibly out for pleasure boating.
See the same work ‘1836 Waterland with mill’ oil on canvas 42 x 59
See the almost identical composition ‘1836 watermill on a canal with ferry’ oil on panel 40 x 57.5
Exhibitions
- 1952 exhibition Museum Panorama Mesdag The Hague ‘paintings and drawings by W.J.J. Nuijen'
- 1974 exhibition Arnhems museum ‘a peculiar artistic life'
- 1977 / 1978 exhibition 'Wijnand Nuijen romantic works' The Hague Haags Gemeente Museum
- 1993 exhibition Rijswijk ‘Wijnand Nuijen and friends, quest in Dutch Romanticism’
- 2011 exhibition Rotterdam Boijmans van Beuningen ‘enriches the collection'
- 2017 tentoonstelling Groninger museum ‘Romance in the North’
Sources
- 1909 book P. Haverkorn van Rijsewijk, pagina 136
- 1930 book J. Knoef ‘the art of the Netherlands I’ , pagina 47-50 afbeelding pagina 49 (met foutieve opgave van eigenaar)
- 1943 catalog museum Boijmans van Beuningen , nummer 89 afbeelding 37
- 1946 book ‘one hundred years of Dutch paintings and drawings' P.A. Scheen , pagina 223 afbeelding 356 ‘de vischpartij’
- 1947 book ‘from romance to realism’ J. Knoef , afbeelding pagina 64
- 1952 catalog exhibition ‘paintings and drawings by W.J.J. Nuijen' Panorama Mesdag The Hague, nummer 25
- 1977/1978 catalog 'Wijnand Nuyen 1813-1839 romantic works' exhibition The Hague 1977 (John Sillevis / Nini Jonker) , nummer 32 pagina 70
- 1993 Catalog tentoonstelling Rijswijk ‘The friends of Wijnand Nuijen’ Henk Dinkelaar, afb 6.01 pagina 73
- 2005 book ‘Masters of romantic art – Dutch artists 1800-1850’ Ronald de Leeuw / Jenny Reynaerts / Benno Tempel, afbeelding pagina 123
- 2017 book 'romantic art of the north', Pagina 165
Provenance
- 1864 Museum Boijmans van Beuningen. Inv nr 1603 (OK) Bought in auction of the collection of mrs J. van der Hoop 13-10-1864. Lot 215. Sold dfl 1655,-
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