Gnarled Trees near the Water
Also titled Knoestige bomen aan het water
Roelant Savery (Kortrijk, 1576–1639)
1605 - 1610
- Medium
- paper, ink, chalk
- Classification
- design
- Dimensions
- height 132 mm x width 154 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, 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
About this work
In this drawing Savery renders oddities of nature in an almost hair-raising manner. His gnarled trees resemble demonic creatures possessed by a will of their own. The drawing is squared in black chalk so that it can be transferred to a larger format. Perhaps it was intended as a preliminary study for a drawing or painting of larger dimensions
