The Windmill
Georges Michel (1763 - 1843), c. 1778-1843
oil on paper on canvas, 53 cm x 64.4 cm
Credits: The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
- Object number
- hwm0259
- Dimensions
- 53 cm x 64.4 cm, 89 cm x 100 cm, 13 cm
- Provenance
- Auction Paris, Durand-Ruel (Collection Cottier), lot 89 (Le Moulin), purchased by Hendrik Willem Mesdag, The Hague for FRF 900, 27-28 May 1892; 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
- Georges Michel
- Credits
- The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
Kassel, Staatliche Museen Kassel, Rembrandts landschappen, 22 June-6 September 2006
Leiden, Museum De Lakenhal, Rembrandts landschappen
Bodt, Saskia de, Leeman, Fred, Leeuw, Ronald de, Pennock, Hanna, Museum Mesdag : catalogue of paintings and drawings, Zwolle, 1996, p. 332
Vergeest, Aukje, The French collection : nineteenth-century French paintings in Dutch public collections, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 225