Going to Pasture

19th century

Anton Mauve Dutch, 1838-1888

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About the Artwork

Anton Mauve built his reputation on paintings of shepherds guiding a flock of sheep in a vast and evocative landscape of rural Holland. Executed with free-moving brushstrokes in a restrained silvery-grey palette, Mauve’s works, like this one, convey his intuitive response to nature. Human figures, seen from the back, are small and subordinated to the expanse of flat fields. The painting’s reflective and melancholic mood hints at nostalgia for the idealized countryside of the past.
Mauve was a prominent member of the Hague School, a group of painters working in The Hague who turned to the tradition of seventeenth-century Dutch realism and adopted the themes drawn from the peasant life and landscape as their main motifs. The Hague School artists often sketched and painted in the open air before completing their works in the studio. Mauve, who was Vincent van Gogh’s cousin by marriage, was responsible for introducing young Van Gogh to painting out of doors.

Title Going to Pasture

Artwork Date 19th century

Artist Anton Mauve

Life Dates 1838-1888

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Dutch

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Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Overall: 22 × 29 7/8 inches (55.9 × 75.9 cm) Framed: 24 3/8 × 32 1/4 × 1 3/8 inches (61.9 × 81.9 × 3.5 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Modern Art to 1970

Credit Gift of Mrs. Joseph B. Schlotman

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 73.60

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Signed Signed, lower right: Mauve

Provenance

Alexander Young;
by 1906, (Henry Reinhardt Galleries, Chicago, Illinois, USA);
1906, purchased by Ms. Stella Ford [later Mrs. Joseph B. Schlotman] (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1973-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Between Nature and Nationality: The Hague School in the Nineteenth Century. Exh. cat., Center Art Gallery, Calvin College. Grand Rapids, 2007, p. 66, cat. 20.

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