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A Barn on the Bank of a Stream in Gelderland
Also titled Een bouwhoeve aan de oever van een beek in Gelderland
Wouter Johannes van Troostwijk (Amsterdam, 1782–1810)
c. 1805 - c. 1810
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 52.5 cm x width 63 cm
- 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
Van Troostwijk breathed new life into Dutch landscape painting. In his pictures he did not compose an ideal vision of nature, nor did he refer back to monumental 17th-century landscapes. Instead, he lovingly rendered familiar everyday motifs, such as this bleaching field at a farm in Gelderland. The bright light and lush vegetation in this scene make it a truly Dutch landscape.
