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Bosgezicht
Also titled Forest Scene
Barend Cornelis Koekkoek (Middelburg, 1803–1862)
1848
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 136 cm x width 160 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of C.C.A., Baron du Bois de Ferrières, Cheltenham
- 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
Of all Dutch landscape painters, Koekkoek is perhaps the most Romantic. He specialized in splendid panora-mas of the valley of the Rhine and forest scenes with majestic trees, which at the time were called ‘Wodan’s Oaks’ (Wodan being the Dutch name for Odin, the major god in Norse mythology). In 1834 Koekkoek settled in Cleves in Germany, over the border from Nijmegen. He found German scenery, with its hills and the Rhine, more romantic than the Dutch landscape.
