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| Title | On the Dunes | |
| Collection | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums): Kelvingrove Museum | |
| Artist | Blommers, Bernardus Johannes (Dutch artist, 1845-1914) | |
| Date Earliest | about 1875 | |
| Date Latest | probably 1901 | |
| Signed | yes | |
| Description | A young girl is pulling a wooden carriage containing her sibling through the dunes. Figure paintings like these were extremely popular abroad, especially among English, Scottish and American collectors. In the Netherlands, however, Blommers' carefree paintings were considered genre pieces and the landscape painters of the Hague School were preferred. | |
| Current Accession Number | 958 | |
| Inscription | front lr 'Blommers' | |
| Subject | landscape; figure | |
| Measurements | 30.8 x 19.7 cm cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on panel | |
| Acquisition Details | Bequeathed by Thomas D. Smellie 1901. | |
| Publications | Paton, J., Catalogue, Descriptive and Historical, of the Pictures and Sculpture in the Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum Kelvingrove, Glasgow, 1904, cat. no. 109, p. 21; Paton, J., Catalogue, Descriptive and Historical, of the Pictures and Sculpture in the Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum Kelvingrove, Glasgow, 1906, cat. no. 109, p. 21; Paton, J., Catalogue, Descriptive and Historical, of the Pictures and Sculpture in the Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum Kelvingrove, Glasgow, 1908, cat. no. 109, p. 22; Catalogue, Descriptive and Historical, of the Pictures in the Glasgow Art Galleries and Museums, Glasgow, 1935, cat. no. 958, p. 28; Miles, H., Dutch and Flemish, Netherlandish and German Paintings, Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, 1961, vol. 1, p. 28, vol. 2, ill. p. 95 | |
| Rights Owner | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums) | |
| Author | Suzanne Veldink | |