Landscape with Two Oaks
Also titled Landschap met twee eiken
Jan van Goyen (Leiden, 1596–1656)
1641
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- sight size: height 86.5 cm x width 108.7 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Dupper Wzn. Bequest, Dordrecht
- 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
The two gnarled oak trees, brightly illuminated by a few rays of sunlight, stand out sharply against the threatening sky. Van Goyen drew the trees with his brush. He used thin, almost transparent paint for the foliage and thick, grainy paint for the furrowed trunks. The landscape’s near monochrome palette is enlivened by the blue and red doublets of the two figures resting.
