Arthur Briët, the bath carriage

The year that the young Arthur Briët painted this work, 1888, was his last at the Antwerp art academy.
In the same year he won the first prize "consisting of two medals, one gold and one silver, besides books." In 1886, he had already won a considerable Dutch cash prize. After Antwerp he could therefore stay a while in Paris. But finally he arrived in Nunspeet, Netherlands, where he lived in a farmhouse, which he had rebuild in half authentic state, in order to use it as the setting for his interiors. This panel (10.5 x 15.5 cm) was for sale at Bonhams, Knightsbridge.