George Hendrik Breitner, Construction Site in Amsterdam
Marlatt Fund, 1985.145 · The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0)View original →
George Hendrik Breitner

Construction Site in Amsterdam

c. 1902

Current Collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Medium
oil on fabric
Dimensions
60.5 × 80.7 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-110203

A leader of the Dutch Impressionists, Breitner based this painting on a series of photographs he took of a construction site in Amsterdam. Although seemingly executed rapidly on site, the painting was in fact carefully composed in the studio. Aided by his own photographs and sketches, Breitner portrayed a city in transition. Like his friend Vincent van Gogh, Breitner admired naturalist literature and was determined to become a “painter of the people.”

Provenance

Marlatt Fund, 1985.145

Registry history

  • c. 1902 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art

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