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The Cattle Ferry
Also titled Het ponteveer
Esaias van de Velde (Amsterdam, 1587–1630)
1622
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 75.5 cm x width 113 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
This painting is a milestone, for never before had a Dutch painter depicted his native flat, watery landscape in such a monumental format. Dusk is falling, and the light is beginning to fade. The glistening river winds its way into the distance, drawing the viewer along, too, past countless little figures.
