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We look down and across a river valley into a mountainous landscape in this horizontal painting. Most of the mountains, trees, and buildings in the middle and deep distance are painted in tones of ice and cobalt blue. The horizon comes about halfway up the painting. In the sky, an intense gold glow comes from the left and illuminates the clouds across the picture. A field of flat aquamarine-blue sky shows through the clouds at the top center. The land closest to us is dark brown and green, backlit by the low sunlight. A vertical, rocky outcropping rises almost the height of the painting…

Imaginary River Landscape

Herman Saftleven (Dutch, 1609 - 1685)

1670 · oil on panel

National Gallery of Art · The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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