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The Avenue of Birches
Also titled Berkenlaan
Jan Hackaert (Amsterdam, 1628–na 1)
1660 - 1685
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 4.7 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
An elegant party has gathered to set out on a hunt, a sport traditionally reserved for the nobility and wealthy leisured class in the 17th century. The man and woman on horseback in the foreground are therefore dressed in the latest fashion. Hackaert subtly suggests how the light of a warm summer afternoon filters through the foliage and is reflected in the water.
