Anton Mauve In The Vegetable Garden

'In the vegetable garden' (1887) by Anton Mauve; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

There are so many beautiful paintings by Anton Mauve, born on 18 September 1838 and died on 5 February 1888. He was a Realist painter of mainly depictions of fields with animals and people. His sheep herding scenes are quite famous. He is also well-known for his connection with Vincent van Gogh. He was married to Vincent's cousin and became his teacher. During the three weeks that Vincent stayed in Anton's studio in 1881, Vincent made his first paintings. Mauve had moved from Haarlem to The Hague in 1872 and became a leading member of the Hague School. The painting for this post has more colour than his former ones that were mainly made of grey and brown shades. Mauve painted this towards the end of his life when he lived in Laren and had discovered a different colour palette.