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The Water Reservoirs, the so-called Bends, in Belgrade Forest
Also titled De waterreservoirs, de zogenaamde Bends, in het bos van Belgrado
Johann Christian Vollerdt (Leipzig, 1708–1769)
1744 - 1763
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 60.5 cm x width 75 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
Calkoen owned a country house in Belgrade Forest, north of Istanbul. Vanmour painted that landscape, from which Vollerdt made this copy. Calkoen met Vollerdt in Dresden (his next diplomatic post), where he planned once again to acquire a large number of paintings by a single artist. He probably had Vollerdt copy Vanmour’s painting to assess his skills.
