- Title:
- A Girl feeding a Bird in a Cage
- Object name(s):
- Picture; Dutch
- Brief description:
- This small painting on wood was painted in the same year as A Girl Seated outside a House, also in the National Gallery’s collection. The two paintings have several common features. These include a young girl (probably the same model) wearing jewellery, seen in profile on the right of the picture, a town with a church spire and even sunflowers in almost identical positions.Maris reused many of these elements in another painting, Girl Knitting on a Balcony, Montmartre (Gemeentemuseum, The Hague). Painted two years later in 1869, this larger picture, showing the girl full length, also includes a caged bird.Although Maris belonged to The Hague School of realist painters, it is tempting to see a symbolic aspect to the image of a caged bird (such as loss of freedom) or perhaps a reference to eighteenth-century portraits of girls with birds by French artists such as Greuze.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 1917-01-01
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1917
- Date - latest:
- 1917
- Acquisition source:
- Sir Hugh Percy Lane
- Associated concept:
- children
- Associated concept:
- birds
- Associated concept:
- flowers
- Credit line:
- Sir Hugh Lane Bequest, 1917, The National Gallery, London. In partnership with Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin.
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Current reproduction location:
- 3/546/809/529/mid_N-3261-00-000012.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 32.60
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 20.80
- Form:
- None
- Inscription content:
- Signed
- Material:
- oil on wood
- Material:
- oil
- Material:
- mahogany
- Object name:
- Picture; Dutch
- Object production date:
- about 1867
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1867
- Date - latest:
- 1867
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1850-74
- Object production person:
- Jacob Maris
- Person's birth date:
- 1837
- Person's death date:
- 1899
- Object production place:
- France
- Object production place:
- Paris
- Other number:
- NG3261
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0GNC-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG3261
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- 000-04OT-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- ng33261
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Owner:
- Sir Hugh Percy Lane
- Responsible department/section:
- Main Collection
- Right note:
- To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Style:
- townscapes
- Style:
- realist
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Dutch School, 1600-1900
- Reference details:
- 1.249
- Reference note:
- Latest catalogue
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Dutch School
- Reference details:
- 236-7
- Reference note:
- Previous catalogues
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 412
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Hugh Lane : founder of a gallery of modern art for Ireland /edited by Barbara Dawson ; assisted by Logan Sisley, Jessica O'Donnell, and Michael Dempsey.
- Reference details:
- Ill. (p. 163)
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Children in art.
- Reference type:
- reference
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/952b38ff-4c81-34b8-865d-7624ab67cc50
Use licence for this record: CC BY
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