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Description: | Signed: yes Description: A vast courtyard encircled by a high wall, opens onto a road in the foreground. Soberly dressed figures, dwarfed by the wall, the houses on the right and the tall tree, walk through the enclosed space. Emphasis on gloomy and desolate atmosphere, combined with a subdued palette, lend an emotive tone to what is otherwise a literal description. Detail is reduced to flat silhouettes. The spatial relationship between the buildings in the background is unclear. Cityscapes brought the artist popularity and recognition as a significant member of the Hague School which emerged in the mid-19th century | Subjects: | townscape; figure | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Maris, Jacob Henricus (Dutch landscape painter, 1837-1899) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8649... | Go to resource |
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