Live Auction 3060The Hofland Collection
George Hendrik Breitner (Rotterdam 1857-1923 Amsterdam)
Lot 10

George Hendrik Breitner (Rotterdam 1857-1923 Amsterdam)

A hussar near a farmhouse

Closed7 October 2014

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EUR 25,000

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George Hendrik Breitner (Rotterdam 1857-1923 Amsterdam)
A hussar near a farmhouse
signed 'G H. Breitner.' (lower right)
pencil, charcoal, watercolour and gouache on paper
355 x 400 mm.
Executed circa 1881.

Mr. J.J. Tiele, Rotterdam, by 1901; Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, 19 March 1907, lot 169a (Dfl. 1,000).
Acquired from the above sale by Mr. A. Terwindt, Nijmegen; Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, 4 June 1929, lot 159.
with Kunsthandel E.J. van Wisselingh & Co., Amsterdam, inv.no. 7393.
Mr. B. de Haes van Spaendonck, Goirle, by 1953.
with Kunsthandel P.B. van Voorst van Beest, The Hague, 1990, where acquired by the family of the present owners.

Specialist note

In the autumn of 1881 Breitner travelled to Brabant where the annual military manoeuvres were held. This theme was a great inspiration for him and he started to combine the military with the peasant genre. It is most likely Breitner was influenced by the work of Jean-François Millet (Grucy 1814-1875 Barbizon) which he saw that same year in Hendrik Willem Mesdag's collection.