Barbizon, France by Gesina Mesdag-van Calcar
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Barbizon, France 1850 - 1936

Gesina Mesdag-van Calcar

Oil paintCardboardPaint
 38 ⨯ 28 cm
€ 1.000 - 5.000

Kunsthandel Pygmalion

  • About the artwork
    Oil on cardboard
    38 x 28 cm
    Signed with annotation "Bij Barbizon".
  • About the artist

    Gesina “Geesje” Mesdag-van-Calcar was a Dutch artist who was born in Hoogezand in 1850.

    She died in Scheveningen in 1936. Gesina Mesdag-van-Calcar was apprenticed to P.J.C. Gabriël at the Academie Minerva (State Academy of Fine Arts) in Groningen.

    She married with painter Taco Mesdag (1829-1902), the brother of the famous the Hague School painter Hendrik Willem Mesdag.

    After their marriage, they settled in The Hague, where she became a member of the art society Pulchri Studio.

    She painted flowers, polder landscapes, still lifes and interiors in an impressionist style.

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Artwork details

Category
19th Century PaintingsPaintings
Subject
ForestNature
Style
Impressionism19th Century ArtImpressionism (second half 19th)
Material & Technique
Oil paintCardboardPaint
Colour
GreenBrown