The Shell Fishers
Jacob Maris (1837 - 1899), 1884
oil on canvas (originally, later transferred to fibreboard), 85 cm x 126 cm
Credits: The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
- Object number
- hwm0191
- Dimensions
- 85 cm x 126 cm, 124 cm x 165.5 cm, 14.5 cm
- Provenance
- Sold by the artist, The Hague, to Boussod, Valadon & Cie, The Hague for NLG 2000, 21 July 1884; sold by Boussod, Valadon & Cie (no. 17127, Les pêcheurs de coquilles) to Hendrik Willem Mesdag, The Hague for NLG 3200, 8 December 1884; Collection Museum Mesdag donated by Hendrik Willem Mesdag and Sientje Mesdag-van Houten to the State of the Netherlands, 14 May 1903; Rijksmuseum H.W. Mesdag, The Hague, from 1 August 1903; in trust of the Mauritshuis, The Hague, between 1934 and 1990; in trust of the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam, from 1 April 1990; Museum Mesdag, in trust of the Van Gogh Museum Foundation, Amsterdam, from 1 July 1994, under the name of De Mesdag Collectie from 2011.
- artist
- Jacob Maris
- Credits
- The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
Bodt, Saskia de, Leeman, Fred, Leeuw, Ronald de, Pennock, Hanna, Museum Mesdag : catalogue of paintings and drawings, Zwolle, 1996, p. 268