DOI issue:
No. 175 (October, 1907)
DOI article:Rutter, Frank: A consideration of the work of Anton Mauve
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20776#0036
Anton Mauve
luminosity of his skies and the justness of his because here they excelled all rivals and set a new
values ; and the diffused brilliance of the first and thing before the succeeding generation. What
the subtle nicety of the second are qualities so Gericault had done for the charger, what Degas was
incommunicable that they can be but imperfectly afterwards to do for the racehorse and carriage-horse,
suggested by the best of reproductions. To appre- Mauve did for the horse of the fields. He stamped
ciate them to the full we must go to the National its type, so that we cannot look at his pictures
Gallery, where, through the generosity of Mr. without thinking of the horses we have seen at
J. C. J. Drucker, Mauve's Watering Horses is work, or look at a horse ploughing without thinking
hanging in Room XII., and compare its sky with of his pictures. Many of his best paintings are
those in the surrounding landscapes. It is won- horse subjects, and 1 have it on the authority of
derful how it shines even on a dull day, and it Mr. E. J. Van Wisselingh—to whom I am much
makes the skies even of a Ruysdael or a Hobbema indebted for information concerning this friend of
a little dead and painty. ' his youth—that " they certainly played a dominant
Though far from being an animal-painter in the part in his work until he went to live at Laren,
limited sense of the term, it is undeniable that which was a sheep country."
Mauve found in beast rather than man his happiest Admirable as his paintings of cattle are, I think
inspiration. In a representative collection thirty- we must agree with Henley that in this particu-
eight out of fifty works have animals for their part lar "he is not to be ranked with Troyon." On
or whole subject. Between sheep, cattle and the other hand, I would maintain that Mauve's
horses his affection was pretty equally divided, skies are better than those of most Troyons in
We find a dozen of the first and thirteen each of which Boudin is not suspected of having taken
the second and third. Personally, I am always part, and I do not see that his work as a whole is
inclined to associate Mauve with horses, just as one so "much less vigorous " or inferior in "decora-
associated Troyon with cattle and Jacques with tive effect." Otherwise Henley's appreciation of
sheep, not because they painted nothing else, but Mauve (Edinburgh Exhibition Catalogue, 1886),
" homeward" (oil painting)
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(By permission of Messrs. M. Knoedler &* Co.)
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luminosity of his skies and the justness of his because here they excelled all rivals and set a new
values ; and the diffused brilliance of the first and thing before the succeeding generation. What
the subtle nicety of the second are qualities so Gericault had done for the charger, what Degas was
incommunicable that they can be but imperfectly afterwards to do for the racehorse and carriage-horse,
suggested by the best of reproductions. To appre- Mauve did for the horse of the fields. He stamped
ciate them to the full we must go to the National its type, so that we cannot look at his pictures
Gallery, where, through the generosity of Mr. without thinking of the horses we have seen at
J. C. J. Drucker, Mauve's Watering Horses is work, or look at a horse ploughing without thinking
hanging in Room XII., and compare its sky with of his pictures. Many of his best paintings are
those in the surrounding landscapes. It is won- horse subjects, and 1 have it on the authority of
derful how it shines even on a dull day, and it Mr. E. J. Van Wisselingh—to whom I am much
makes the skies even of a Ruysdael or a Hobbema indebted for information concerning this friend of
a little dead and painty. ' his youth—that " they certainly played a dominant
Though far from being an animal-painter in the part in his work until he went to live at Laren,
limited sense of the term, it is undeniable that which was a sheep country."
Mauve found in beast rather than man his happiest Admirable as his paintings of cattle are, I think
inspiration. In a representative collection thirty- we must agree with Henley that in this particu-
eight out of fifty works have animals for their part lar "he is not to be ranked with Troyon." On
or whole subject. Between sheep, cattle and the other hand, I would maintain that Mauve's
horses his affection was pretty equally divided, skies are better than those of most Troyons in
We find a dozen of the first and thirteen each of which Boudin is not suspected of having taken
the second and third. Personally, I am always part, and I do not see that his work as a whole is
inclined to associate Mauve with horses, just as one so "much less vigorous " or inferior in "decora-
associated Troyon with cattle and Jacques with tive effect." Otherwise Henley's appreciation of
sheep, not because they painted nothing else, but Mauve (Edinburgh Exhibition Catalogue, 1886),
" homeward" (oil painting)
14
(By permission of Messrs. M. Knoedler &* Co.)
liV ANTON MAUVE