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Siebe Johannes TEN CATE 1858-1909
Dutch painter
After studying at the Antwerp Academy, Ten Cate made a career for himself in Paris.
He moved there at the age of 22, where he met and became friends with Van Gogh in the 1880s. He also shared a studio in Montmartre with Van Dongen.
He was one of the artists represented by Durand-Ruel, the Impressionist painters' dealer.
He exhibited several times in Munich, in Paris with the French Artists, at the National and Universal Exhibitions of 1900, in Venice and Vienna.
The French press was full of praise.
He was called, for example, 'the new Jongkind'. After his death, an English newspaper ran the headline
Sad End of a Genius'.
The greatest museums in France and the rest of the world owned paintings and pastels by the man also known as the Prince of the Parisian Mists.
Ten Cate
"is a researcher who records his impressions with scrupulous fidelity
and who captures reality with happiness, bringing out the significant aspects of large centres in the hustle and bustle of crowds or the solitude of abandoned corners.
He excels in rendering the local feeling and the changing tones according to the time of day or night, both in his city views and in his landscapes".
Our pastel sums up this quote perfectly.
Take a good look at the sublime pencil strokes used by the painter to convey the rush of passers-by
hastening to escape the snow.
Note how delicately the little snowflakes cover the umbrellas and the roofs of the church,
adding a touch of magic and poetry.
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