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…
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Landscape with Open Gate

Pieter Molijn (Dutch, 1595 - 1661)

c. 1630/1635

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 33.6 x 47.9 cm (13 1/4 x 18 7/8 in.) ; framed: 53.6 x 67.6 x 2.5 cm (21 1/8 x 26 5/8 x 1 in.)
Culture
Dutch
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund and Gift of Arthur K. and Susan H. Wheelock
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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