Digging up Potatoes

Digging up Potatoes

SK-A-3319

Het rooien van aardappels. Een boer en een boerin zijn bezig op een akker met ene mand een zak met aardappels te vullen.

signature: ‘Kever’

painter: Jacob Simon Hendrik Kever (mentioned on object)

1880 - 1922

oil on canvas

height 51.5 cm x width 34 cm

Gift of Mr and Mrs Kessler-Hülsmann, Kapelle op den Bosch

gift 1940-03

Public domain

…; ? the dealer Unger en Van Mens, Rotterdam, 1914;{Dealer cat. Kunstzalen Unger en van Mens 1914, unpag., no. 3 or no. 18.} …; collection Dominicus Antonius Josephus Kessler (1855-1939) and Mrs A.C.M.H. Kessler-Hülsmann (1868-1947), Kapelle op den Bosch, near Mechelen;{Note RMA.} donated, with xx other objects, by Mrs A.C.M.H. Kessler-Hülsmann to the museum, 1940

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