# The Cattle Ferry

- By: Esaias van de Velde (Amsterdam, 1587–1630)
- Date: 1622
- Medium: panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: support: height 75.5 cm x width 113 cm
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-1293--bd2a963f2a5be7a219a45c27c8f76fc9)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/Lamtm/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.