View of the Mill and Bridge on the Noordwest Buitensingel in The Hague, 1873

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 81 x 144 cm (31 7/8 x 56 11/16 in.)

framed: 110.5 x 176.5 x 11.4 cm (43 1/2 x 69 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

1999.56.1

Artists / Makers

Jacob Maris (painter) Dutch, 1837 - 1899

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right: JMaris 73

Provenance

Sir Henry Thompson, 1st bt. [1820-1904].[1] George McCulloch [1848-1907], London, by 1903;[2] (his estate sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 23, 29, and 30 May 1913, 1st day, no. 35); (Henry Wallis & Son, London); purchased 30 October 1916 by Henry Clay Frick [1849-1919], Pride’s Crossing, Eagle Rock, Massachusetts, and New York;[3] by inheritance to his daughter, Helen Clay Frick [1888-1984], Pride’s Crossing; gift 19 October 1959 to her nephew, Dr. Henry Clay Frick, II [1919-2007], Alpine, New Jersey;[4] (Noortman [Maastricht] BV, Maastricht); purchased 16 June 1999 by NGA.

[1] Statement about the painting by Wallis & Son, and letter, Wallis & Son to Henry Clay Frick, 4 October 1916; copies in NGA curatorial files from: The Frick Collection/Frick Art Reference Library Archives, The Frick Collection Records, Henry Clay Frick Art Collection Files, TFC.100.10, Series I: Purchases, 1881-1920, Subseries 2: Purchase Files, 1896-1919, box 4, folder 13. Thompson was a prominent physician, surgeon, and professor at the Royal College of Surgeons in London.

[2] McCulloch lent the painting to a 1903 exhibition in London. Born in Glasgow, he made his fortune as a mine owner in New South Wales before he settled in London. There McCulloch befriended John Singer Sargent and amassed an important collection of works by then living artists.

[3] Letter, 30 October 1916, Henry Clay Frick to Wallis & Son, London; handwritten Ledger Pages showing paintings acquired December 31, 1912 – April 14, 1917, page dated 1916, entry dated October 30; typed List of Paintings Acquired December 29, 1910-August 23, 1919; 1920 Inventory of One East 70th Street, paintings in the Gallery; receipts and letter, 14 and 15 November 1916, Wallis & Son, London, to Henry Clay Frick; copies in NGA curatorial files from: The Frick Collection/Frick Art Reference Library Archives: The Frick Collection Records, Henry Clay Frick Art Collection Files, TFC.100.10, Series I: Purchases, 1881-1920, Subseries 2: Purchase Files, 1896-1919, box 4, folder 3, and Subseries 3: Lists, 1910-1920, box 5, folders 12 and 15; and The Frick Family Papers, Henry Clay Frick Papers, HCFF.1.1, Series I: Art Files, Purchases, 1881-1921, undated, box 10, folder 27.

[4] Information sheet on the painting, titled “A Dutch Landscape” or “Windmill and Locks;” copy in NGA curatorial files from: The Frick Collection/Frick Art Reference Library Archives, Helen Clay Frick Artwork Files, no. 318-10b.

Associated Names

Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Frick, Helen Clay
Frick, Henry Clay
Frick, II, Dr. Henry Clay
McCulloch, George
Noortman Master Paintings
Thompson, 1st bt., Sir Henry
Wallis & Son, Henry

Exhibition History

1873: Possibly Salon, Palais des Champs-Élysées, Paris, 1873, no. 1006, as Canal en Hollande.

1903: Exhibition of a Selection of Works by Early and Modern Painters of the Dutch School, Art Gallery of the Corporation of London, 1903, no. 101, as River and Windmill.

1910: Selected Works by James Maris, Anton Mauve, H. Fantin-Latour, French Gallery, London, 1910, no. 25, repro., as The Two Windmills.

1938: Loan to display with permanent collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1938.

1942: Loan to display with permanent collection, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1942-1949.

1949: Exhibition of Paintings to Commemorate the Centenary of Henry Clay Frick, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1949-1950, no. 3.

1950: An Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of Helen C. Frick, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1950, no. 1, as Two Windmills.

1997: Langs velden en wegen. De verbeelding van het landschap in de 18de en 19de eeuw [On Country Roads and Fields: The depiction of the 18th- and 19th-century landscape], Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1997-1998, no. 78, repro.