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We look across a rutted, dirt road at a rickety wooden gate that leans precipitously to our right, at the same angle as the bare tree behind it in this horizontal landscape painting. The road curves from the lower right corner to the center of the composition, and continues back over a low rise. The gate leans back at an angle next to the road, near the lower right center of the painting. An area in shadow to our right could be the fence continuing along in front of a building with a sloping, moss-green roof that echoes the angle of the gate and tree. The bare branches of the tree twist into…

Landscape with Open Gate

Pieter Molijn (Dutch, 1595 - 1661)

c. 1630/1635 · oil on panel

National Gallery of Art · Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund and Gift of Arthur K. and Susan H. Wheelock

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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