The Bridge Over the IJssel River at Doesburg

The Bridge Over the IJssel River at Doesburg

SK-A-3606

• signature and date: ‘W. Roelofs Doesborgh 1889’
• inscription: ‘Schipbrug te Doesborgh’

During the summer months, Roelofs would venture out and paint a multitude of studies outdoors. With his smooth and deft brushstrokes, he was able to capture this river landscape with the quintessential Dutch cloud cover. He would frame the studies, hang them on the wall of his studio and number them. This particular painting is number 3, as seen at the lower right. In the winter months, Roelofs would use these studies to compose large landscapes.

painter: Willem Roelofs (I) (mentioned on object), Doesburg

1889

olieverf op doek op paneel

• depth 9 cm
• height 24.5 cm x width 45.5 cm

Mr and Mrs Drucker-Fraser Bequest, Montreux

bequest 1944

Public domain

…; on loan from Jean Charles Joseph Drucker (1862-1944, Montreux) and Maria Lydia Drucker-Fraser (1886-1944, Montreux), with 70 other paintings, to the museum, 1919;{Note RMA.} by whom bequeathed, with 71 other paintings, to the museum, 1944

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