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1873-01-01T00:00:00Z
Anton Mauve visual detail
ArtistAnton Mauve
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Market Intelligence

Observed sale facts, comparable evidence, artist index history and modeled research remain separate.

Public evidence
Last known price $6,000 Dealer purchase · Feb 16, 1897
-9.1% vs previous observed sale
Matched price history · normalized USD · Foundry provisional
1897 · $6,6001897 · $6,000
$7K1897
$6K1897
Last known price$6,0002 matched observed sales
Observed median$6,300
Observed sales2
Artist index420.0
1897-02-16Dealer sale$6,600.00
1897-02-16Dealer purchase$6,000.00
Artist index contextLatest public build 420.0 · base 100 · n=2.Artist-level context is not an artwork valuation.

Comparable Sales

Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.

Evidence ranked
ArtworkSale dateHouseRealized USDMatch
Changing Pasture
1875 · Oil on canvas
1892-01-14—$2,750.0080%
Changing Pasture
1875 · Oil on canvas
1890-10-10—$1,500.0080%

Similarity score is descriptive evidence ranking, not a valuation model. Every row comes from the public-rights market boundary.

Provenance

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This work may not be lent, by terms of its acquisition by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

This work may not be lent, by terms of its acquisition by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Source provenance text

This work may not be lent, by terms of its acquisition by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Sourced Overview Evidence

Mauve was a leading member of the Hague school, the Dutch counterpart to the Barbizon school of painters in France. He painted everyday subjects drawn from his local landscape in southwest Holland. This work depicts one of Mauve’s favorite and most popular subjects, a shepherd and his flock. Prices varied depending on whether the picture featured "sheep coming," or, as here, the slightly less expensive "sheep going." Vincent van Gogh, who was the cousin of Mauve’s wife, studied with Mauve in the winter of 1881–82, and admired him as "a great interpreter of the fine gray Dutch countryside."

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Evidence state

2 observed sales · 2 comparable sales · 2 structured provenance events · 1 structured exhibitions.

Credit LineShort DescriptionProvenance TextExhibition History