Polderlandscape with a Windmill
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Oil on panel
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14 x 22 cm
(5.5 x 8.7 in) - Signed lower right PJC Gabriel f
- Hague School
provenance
Private Collection, Alblasserwaard, The Netherlandsmore about Paul Joseph Constantin Gabriël
Paul Joseph Constantin Gabriël
b. 05.07.1828
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
d. 23.08.1903
The Hague, The Netherlands
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
d. 23.08.1903
The Hague, The Netherlands
Paul Joseph Constantin Gabriël was born in 1828 and received his first training at the Amsterdam Academy. The influence of Camille Corot (1796-1875) and the painters of Barbizon, that had been felt in Gabriel’s hometown Brussels since the early fifties, appealed to his own views, representing nature as truthfully as possible without idealism and excess ‘decorum’. Still his subjects most . . .
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