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Sunset on the Heath, ca. 1877

  • oil paint, canvas
  • 82.5 x 147.3 cm
  • Inv. 1877-B

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Throughout his life, Adrien-Joseph Heymans worked in the vicinity of Kalmthout, in the Kempen area in Antwerp Province. After the example of Hippolyte Boulenger and artists who worked around the village of Tervuren near Brussels, a group of like-minded landscape artists came together in Kalmthout in the 1870s. They shared a predilection for painting in the open air and strove for an atmospheric depiction of nature. Their greyish landscapes did not reflect nature, however. On the contrary, these artists saw nature as a reflection of their own mood. We also see this melancholy vision in the early work of Adrien-Joseph Heymans, as in Sunset on the Heath.

Artist

Adrien Joseph Heymans RKD
Antwerp 1839 - Schaerbeek (Brussels) 1921
painters (artists)AAT

Title Sunset on the Heath
Date ca. 1877
Period 19th century
Location Kempen TGN
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings signatures (names) bottom right: A.J. Heymans
Collection paintings AAT
Object type oil paintings (visual works) AAT
Inventory number 1877-B
Acquisition credit purchase
salon
Ghent
1877
Current whereabouts Work on display
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IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/200/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 25H landscapes Iconclass
Keywords Iconclass 22 natural phenomena Iconclass
24A sun as celestial body Iconclass
24A2 sunset Iconclass
24A8 sunlight Iconclass
25F animals Iconclass
25F2 mammals Iconclass
25G4(HEATHER) plants and herbs (HEATHER) Iconclass
25H landscapes Iconclass
25H1 landscapes in the temperate zone Iconclass
25H16 plain Iconclass
25H18 cultivated land Iconclass
25H2143 pond, pool Iconclass
46A14 farmers Iconclass
46AA14 farmers - AA - female farmer, farmer's wife Iconclass
46C14 animal traction, animal-drawn vehicle (carriage etc.) Iconclass
46C145 (farm) wagon, freight wagon, cart Iconclass
47I1 agriculture Iconclass
47I2112 cow Iconclass
61D(BELGIUM) geographical names of countries, regions, mountains, rivers, etc. (names of cities and villages excepted) (BELGIUM) Iconclass
61D(CAMPINE) geographical names of countries, regions, mountains, rivers, etc. (names of cities and villages excepted) (CAMPINE) Iconclass
School / Style realism (artistic form of expression) AAT
Adrien-Joseph Heymans (Fonds Richard de Moor). - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.]
Catalogus van het Museum van Schoone Kunsten Gent : II: Moderne Meesters / Georges Chabot, Fritz Van Loo. - Gent : Ad. Hoste, 1932 (p. 81)
Het impressionisme en het fauvisme in België = L'impressionisme et le fauvisme en Belgique (tentoonstelling Elsene, Museum van Elsene, 12.10 - 16.12.1990) / Serge Goyens de Heusch. - Elsene (Brussel) : Museum van Elsene, 1990 (p. 46-47, cat. 12 (ill.))
Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. II, p. 184-185 (ill.))
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