{"id":4415,"date":"2025-03-24T15:57:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T19:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/?p=4415"},"modified":"2025-03-24T15:57:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T19:57:28","slug":"anthonij-mauve-snow-scene-with-sheep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/anthonij-mauve-snow-scene-with-sheep\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthonij Mauve Snow Scene with Sheep"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.kadence-column4415_79a3ba-b6{max-width:100%;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;}.wp-block-kadence-column.kb-section-dir-horizontal:not(.kb-section-md-dir-vertical)>.kt-inside-inner-col>.kadence-column4415_79a3ba-b6{-webkit-flex:0 1 100%;flex:0 1 100%;max-width:unset;margin-left:unset;margin-right:unset;}.kadence-column4415_79a3ba-b6 > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column4415_79a3ba-b6 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column4415_79a3ba-b6 > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column4415_79a3ba-b6 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column4415_79a3ba-b6 > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column4415_79a3ba-b6 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column4415_79a3ba-b6{position:relative;}@media all and (min-width: 1025px){.wp-block-kadence-column.kb-section-dir-horizontal>.kt-inside-inner-col>.kadence-column4415_79a3ba-b6{-webkit-flex:0 1 100%;flex:0 1 100%;max-width:unset;margin-left:unset;margin-right:unset;}}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column4415_79a3ba-b6 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.wp-block-kadence-column.kb-section-sm-dir-vertical:not(.kb-section-sm-dir-horizontal):not(.kb-section-sm-dir-specificity)>.kt-inside-inner-col>.kadence-column4415_79a3ba-b6{max-width:100%;-webkit-flex:1;flex:1;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;}.kadence-column4415_79a3ba-b6 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column4415_79a3ba-b6 mobile-section\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"774\" height=\"114\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/01\/lynch-logo.png\" alt=\"Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch Collection\" class=\"wp-image-2922\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/01\/lynch-logo.png 774w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/01\/lynch-logo-300x44.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/01\/lynch-logo-768x113.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 774px) 100vw, 774px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-4415_21a0e8-5a .kt-block-spacer{height:60px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-4415_21a0e8-5a .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:#f1f1f1;width:100%;border-top-style:solid;}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-4415_21a0e8-5a .kt-divider{width:100%!important;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-4415_21a0e8-5a\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\" \/><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>Anthonij (Anton) Mauve (1838\u201388)<\/strong><br><em>Snow Scene with Sheep<\/em>, c. 1882\u201388<br><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oil on canvas<br>McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 1988.91<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"862\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/mauve.jpg\" alt=\"Snow Scene with Sheep\" class=\"wp-image-4416\" style=\"width:1202px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/mauve.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/mauve-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/mauve-1024x736.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/mauve-768x552.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-not-stacked-on-mobile has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"background-color:#f1f1f1\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>Jeffery Howe<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>Professor Emeritus, Art History<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/howe-6.jpg\" alt=\"Jeffery Howe\" class=\"wp-image-4347\" style=\"width:78px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/howe-6.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/howe-6-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"969\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/van-gough-969x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Pink Peach Trees (\u201cSouvenir de Mauve\u201d)\" class=\"wp-image-4417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/van-gough-969x1024.jpg 969w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/van-gough-284x300.jpg 284w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/van-gough-768x812.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/van-gough.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 969px) 100vw, 969px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Vincent van Gogh,\u00a0<em>Pink Peach Trees (\u201cSouvenir de Mauve\u201d)<\/em>, March 30, 1888. Oil on canvas, Kr\u00f6ller-M\u00fcller Museum, Otterlo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>Mauve was a prominent member of \u201cthe Hague school,\u201d a group of Dutch painters who sought to revive the tradition of naturalism that had characterized seventeenth-century Dutch painting through landscape and rural subjects. They have much in common with the French Barbizon artists, especially Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Millet, Jules Dupr\u00e9, and Constant Troyon.&nbsp;<em>Snow Scene with Sheep<\/em>&nbsp;is noteworthy for the delicacy of its tonal gradations and nuances of color. Nominally a realist scene, it also represents a nostalgia for a way of life that was already disappearing. A shepherd guides his small flock through the snow, persevering against the winter chill. The shepherd tending his flock has long been a metaphor for social and spiritual care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mauve influenced a number of painters, notably Vincent van Gogh (1853\u201390), his cousin by marriage. In his youth, Van Gogh kept a photograph of one of Mauve\u2019s drawings hanging in his room, and always admired his paintings. Van Gogh commented that \u201cA picture by Mauve\u2026says more, and says it more clearly, than nature herself.\u201d In late 1881 Mauve taught Van Gogh to paint in watercolor and helped him begin to explore the use of color in oil. Mauve even lent him paints and set him up in a studio near his house. Upon hearing of Mauve\u2019s death in 1888, Van Gogh labeled one of his finest landscape studies,&nbsp;<em>Pink Peach Trees<\/em>, \u201cSouvenir de Mauve.\u201d A symbol of spring and resurrection, it was a fine memorial to his fellow Dutch artist.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-4415_d4ec3b-2e .kt-block-spacer{height:60px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-4415_d4ec3b-2e .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:#f1f1f1;width:100%;border-top-style:solid;}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-4415_d4ec3b-2e .kt-divider{width:100%!important;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-4415_d4ec3b-2e\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\" \/><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" 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