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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

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/952b38ff-4c81-34b8-865d-7624ab67cc50, National Gallery, CC BY

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