Girl at the pump

Matthijs Maris, 1872
Girl at the pump, Matthijs Maris
Girl at the pump, zoomed in
34 cmGirl at the pump scale comparison26.5 cm

Girl at the pump is a Realist Oil on Canvas Painting created by Matthijs Maris in 1872. It lives at the Groninger Museum in Netherlands. The image is in the Public Domain, and tagged Girls. SourceDownloadSee Girl at the pump in the Kaleidoscope

This painting was created by the enigmantic dutchman Matthijs Maris, during his time in Paris. Maris was 33, and hadn't developed his mature ‘foggy’ style yet. His palette and technique still harken back to the almost medieval formality of Maris’s hero: Jean-François Millet. In this painting, the daughter of Maris’s brother’s maid, a girl named Julie Crottard, pumps water into a pitcher. The painting’s originial collectior, Veendorp, called it “a sublime summary of everything Dutch painting can do, starting with Van Eyck.”

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