Sentry
George Hendrik Breitner (1857 - 1923), 1880
oil on canvas, 57.5 cm x 36.5 cm
Credits: The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
As a young artist Breitner was fascinated by the military exercises held in the dunes outside The Hague. He sketched the mounted artillery in action, and also made more static studies of horsemen and their steeds, like this work. The artist clearly had a gift for painting horses. Mesdag asked him to portray the animals in his Panorama, a year later, in 1881
- Object number
- hwm0055
- Dimensions
- 57.5 cm x 36.5 cm, 92 cm x 71 cm, 13 cm
- Provenance
- Sold by the artist to Hendrik Willem Mesdag, The Hague for NLG 300 during the exhibition at Akademie van Beeldende Kunsten, The Hague (Kunstwerken van levende meesters), cat. 48 (Veldpost), 1881; 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
- George Hendrik Breitner
- Credits
- The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
The Hague, De Mesdag Collectie, Natuur in beeld. Fotografie ontmoet schilderkunst in de 19de eeuw, 5 March-5 June 2016
Veldink, Suzanne, Breitner : schilderbeest, Zwolle, 2024, pp. 29-30
Veldink, Suzanne, Prins, Laura, Lier, Titia van, Visser, Evelien de, Goslings, Boudewien, De schilders van het Panorama van Scheveningen, Den Haag, 2021, p. 102-103
Lopez, J., A jewel restored
Dijk, Maite van, Suijver, Renske, Fitski, M., Smits, C., De Mesdag Collectie, Amsterdam, 2011, p. 67-69
Dijk, Maite van, Suijver, Renske, Fitski, M., Smits, C., The Mesdag Collection, Amsterdam, 2011, p. 67-69
Bodt, Saskia de, Leeman, Fred, Leeuw, Ronald de, Pennock, Hanna, Museum Mesdag : catalogue of paintings and drawings, Zwolle, 1996, p. 124