Cornelis Springer (Dutch painter 1817-1891)
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A winter street view in the Jewish Quarter in Amsterdam. Oil on panel.
Maybe you like to read about the Jewish Quarter:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodenbuurt
I like you to see what Linda wrote:
Sorry folks, I haven't been able to find anything on this painting, except that it was painted in 1871 and was based on a drawing in black chalk on paper drawn in 1855.
But I did find this, a digression from our subject today, but I thought it might interest you. It's a diary entry written by a 28-year-old American lady living in Brussels in 1968:
"Saturday, March 9, is almost over, and I am disappointed because I didn’t do all the marvelous things that always seem possible on Saturdays. And now my excuse is that my back aches a bit from having bent for hours over that habit-forming jigsaw puzzle, which has been part of the scenery in the apartment for the past five days. Altogether we must have spent twenty hours fathoming out the thing—1500 pieces which together make a “Scene in Enkhuizen” by a Dutch painter called Cornelis Springer, 1817-1891, whom until now I had never heard of. Now I shall never forget him. The blurb on the back of the box says that he was “a Dutch painter, etcher and aquarellist. He painted extensively in Holland, Belgium and Germany, and his work has been used in historical books. This picture hangs in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.” I think now that I know every corner of the picture off by memory. I even dreamt about doing jigsaws the other night. Anyway, we are hooked, and the only thing I can say about getting hooked on jigsaws is that , besides being a monumental waste of time that leaves one with eyestrain, backstrain and frustration, they are an excellent lesson in perspective. The little lady in background literally is walking on the head of the big lady in the foreground. The other thing I can say about jigsaws is that they get you acquainted with whatever you are building. The Berlin puzzle we bought in Munich (simple, only 500 pieces and two hours’ work) got me all familiar with Kurfurstendamm, and when we went to Berlin a few weeks later I felt as if I was walking through a three-dimensional puzzle. (That would be a fun short story—getting to know the world through jigsaws.)"
Well, we're fortunate these days in not having to bend over a table to do our puzzles, but the rest sounds so very familiar!
Maybe you like to read about the Jewish Quarter:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodenbuurt
I like you to see what Linda wrote:
Sorry folks, I haven't been able to find anything on this painting, except that it was painted in 1871 and was based on a drawing in black chalk on paper drawn in 1855.
But I did find this, a digression from our subject today, but I thought it might interest you. It's a diary entry written by a 28-year-old American lady living in Brussels in 1968:
"Saturday, March 9, is almost over, and I am disappointed because I didn’t do all the marvelous things that always seem possible on Saturdays. And now my excuse is that my back aches a bit from having bent for hours over that habit-forming jigsaw puzzle, which has been part of the scenery in the apartment for the past five days. Altogether we must have spent twenty hours fathoming out the thing—1500 pieces which together make a “Scene in Enkhuizen” by a Dutch painter called Cornelis Springer, 1817-1891, whom until now I had never heard of. Now I shall never forget him. The blurb on the back of the box says that he was “a Dutch painter, etcher and aquarellist. He painted extensively in Holland, Belgium and Germany, and his work has been used in historical books. This picture hangs in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.” I think now that I know every corner of the picture off by memory. I even dreamt about doing jigsaws the other night. Anyway, we are hooked, and the only thing I can say about getting hooked on jigsaws is that , besides being a monumental waste of time that leaves one with eyestrain, backstrain and frustration, they are an excellent lesson in perspective. The little lady in background literally is walking on the head of the big lady in the foreground. The other thing I can say about jigsaws is that they get you acquainted with whatever you are building. The Berlin puzzle we bought in Munich (simple, only 500 pieces and two hours’ work) got me all familiar with Kurfurstendamm, and when we went to Berlin a few weeks later I felt as if I was walking through a three-dimensional puzzle. (That would be a fun short story—getting to know the world through jigsaws.)"
Well, we're fortunate these days in not having to bend over a table to do our puzzles, but the rest sounds so very familiar!
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