Emile Claus

The haymaker

Galerie Oscar de Vos

Date 1896

Period 1890s, Luminism, Impressionism

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimension 130.2 x 97.5 cm (51¹/₄ x 38³/₈ inches)

Framed dimension 149.5 x 116 cm (58⁷/₈ x 45⁵/₈ inches)

Date: 1896

Period: 1890s, Luminism, Impressionism

Medium: Oil on canvas

Signature: Signed lower right: Emile Claus

Dimension: 130.2 x 97.5 cm (51¹/₄ x 38³/₈ inches)

Provenance: - Galerie Charles Bailly, Paris.

Literature: - De Smet, J., Emile Claus, exh. cat (Ostend: PMMK, 1997), 138, no. 68 (ill). 
- De Smet, J., Emile Claus et la vie rurale, exh. cat. (Ghent: Mercatorfonds, 2009), 63, 65, no. 25 (ill.). 
- Du Faux, H., Notice sur Emile Claus (1924), 27. 
- Ekonomidès, C., Emile Claus (1849-1924) (Paris: Bibliothèque de l'image, 2013), 46 (ill.).
- Hoozee, R., M. Miyazawa, Light of Flandres. Images of a beautiful Belgian Village, exh. cat. (Japan: Himeji City Museum of Art, Bunkamura Museum of Art & Okuda Genso Sayume Art Museum, 2010), 74-75, 143, no. 39 (ill.). 
- Lemonnier, C., Emile Claus (G. Van Oest & Cie, 1908) 60. 
- Pas, W. & G., Biografische lexicon plastische kunsten in België, dl. 1 (Arto, 2000), 28 (ill.). 
- Sauton, A., Un Prince du Luminisme Emile Claus (Bruxelles: J. Lebègue & Cie, 1946), 52. 
- Pauwels, P.J.H., Als een fonkelenden spiegel (Sint-Martens-Latem: Galerie Oscar De Vos, 2019), 213 (ill.).
- Van Cauteren, K. e.a. (ed.), OER. De wortels van Vlaanderen, tent.cat. (Tielt/Antwerpen: Lannoo/The Phoebus Foundation, 2017), 270-271 (ill.).
- Van Cauteren, K. e.a. (ed.), Coming home. Flemish Art 1880-1930 (Tielt: Lannoo, 2020), p. 24-25 (ill.).

Exhibition: - 1997, Ostend, PMMK, Retrospective Emile Claus, no. 68 (ill.).
- 2009, Ghent, Museum of Fine Arts, Emile Claus en het landleven, no. 25 (ill.).
- 2010, Japan, Light of Flandres. Images of a beautiful Belgian Village, no. 39 (ill.).
- 2017, Ghent, Caermersklooster, OER. De wortels van Vlaanderen, p. 270 (ill.).

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