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De Waag Haarlem
Original price was: $599.00.$299.00Current price is: $299.00.
Artist: Floris Arntzenius
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De Waag Haarlem by Floris Arntzenius, reimagined as a hand-painted oil reproduction that keeps the soft northern light and layered brushwork of the original market square scene.
Description
Description
In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, as The Hague School gave way to a looser, more atmospheric strain of Dutch Impressionism, Floris Arntzenius turned his attention to the old market towns north of the capital, and De Waag Haarlem belongs to that period of restless urban observation. The weighing house itself, a familiar civic landmark, gave him a subject already steeped in the daily rhythm of trade and street life, and he approached it not as a monument to record but as an excuse to study light falling across brick, stone, and cobble.
About De Waag Haarlem
The composition holds the building at a working distance, allowing figures, carts, and the shifting business of the square to press in around its base, so that architecture and street life read as a single continuous event rather than separate subjects. Arntzenius builds the scene through a restrained palette of greys, ochres, and muted blues, letting small passages of warmer colour carry the eye across the canvas without disturbing the overall calm of the tonal structure. His brushwork tightens where the eye is meant to settle, on a doorway or a huddle of figures, then opens into broader, looser strokes at the edges, a hierarchy of touch that keeps the whole surface alive.
What distinguishes the picture is its handling of Haarlem weather, that particular northern light that softens edges and mutes colour without draining the scene of its energy. The painting sits comfortably within the wider Dutch Impressionist interest in atmosphere over anecdote, and it rewards the kind of slow looking that a photograph of the same square could never sustain. Owning a museum quality hand-painted oil painting of this scene means living with that same quality of light on your own wall, not as a flat reproduction but as an object built up in real paint. Our painters reproduce the work stroke by stroke in oil on canvas, matching the original palette and preserving the variation in surface texture that gives the picture its depth, so what arrives is a genuine oil painting reproduction rather than a printed facsimile.
The hand-painted reproduction
What you receive:
- A hand-painted reproduction in oil on canvas, made by a trained artist
- A choice of sizes to suit your wall and interior
- A gallery-ready canvas, ready to hang on arrival
- A certificate of authenticity accompanying your painting
- Free worldwide shipping, with no shipping charge to any country
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Each ByMuseum artwork is a hand-painted oil painting reproduction created by trained artists on high-quality cotton canvas. Every piece is reviewed, finished, and packed according to the framing option you select.
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Unframed — Rolled in Tube
Your artwork is painted on premium cotton canvas, then shipped safely rolled in a rigid tube with extra blank canvas border — ready for stretching or framing locally.
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Select a handcrafted frame and we’ll deliver your painting fully assembled, protected, and ready to hang.
For safe shipping, framing is available up to a maximum size. Larger sizes will automatically disable the frame option.
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Choose “Stretched” to receive your canvas mounted on wooden stretcher bars — perfect if you’ll frame it later or display it as-is.
Gallery Wrap
Gallery Wrap is a deeper, 1.5" style stretcher. The canvas wraps around the sides and is stapled on the back for a clean, modern, frameless look.
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