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Panoramic View of a River with Low-lying Meadows
Also titled Vergezicht over de uiterwaarden van een rivier
Jan van Goyen (Leiden, 1596–1656)
in or after 1644
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- outer size: depth 4.5 cm (support incl. frame)
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt
- 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
Jan van Goyen painted the Dutch landscape in all of its myriad facets: from cities and villages to the sea and rivers, from hilly dunes to sprawling polders and holmes (flat ground near a river submerged in times of flood). Here some people on a hill in the left foreground look across an extensive river landscape. Van Goyen reserved a tremendous amount of space for the imposing cloudy sky looming above the low land.
