Two men and a dog walk or stand on a rutted dirt road that stretches into the distance in front of us, between a grove of trees to our left and a shallow, narrow canal or ditch to our right in this horizontal landscape painting. The horizon comes about a quarter of the way up the composition, and puffy white clouds float across a pale blue sky above. Outlined against the sky, the leaves of some of the trees to our left are olive or moss green, and others are golden yellow. Tiny in scale and a distance from us, the men wear dark, brimmed hats and dark pants and shoes or boots. One wears a…
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Wooded Landscape with Figures

painter Meindert Hobbema (Dutch, 1638 - 1709)

c. 1658

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 53.34 × 67.31 cm (21 × 26 1/2 in.) ; framed: 78.11 × 93.35 × 8.89 cm (30 3/4 × 36 3/4 × 3 1/2 in.)
Culture
Dutch
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection, 1926)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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