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Sketch at Scheveningen
(1854)
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
18.1 × 30.1 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1906
Gallery location
19th Century European Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
In 1854 Corot visited Holland with the artist Constant Dutilleux, who wrote: ‘We make for the sea, 1st study in the dunes with Scheveningen in the background’. Corot later used his Dutch sketches for larger salon paintings that he called ‘souvenirs’. His studies of Scheveningen were much admired by fellow artists, including Antoine Vollon who may have owned this painting. In 1883 Vincent Van Gogh wrote: ‘Going back … thirty years, forty, even fifty years [Corot and Daubigny] began to paint the dunes [of Scheveningen] in their true character … where the soil is almost untrodden by bathing guests’.
Artwork Details
Inscription
incised in paint l.l.: Scheveningen
Accession Number
271-2
Department
International Painting
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited
Subjects (general)
Cityscapes Human Figures
Subjects (specific)
children (people by age group) dunes Netherlands (nation) Scheveningen (inhabited place) windmills women (female humans)