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Brook in the Woods near Oosterbeek
Also titled Beek in het bos bij Oosterbeek
Matthijs Maris (The Hague, 1839–1917)
c. 1860
- Medium
- panel, paper, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 7.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- J.B.A.M. Westerwoudt Bequest, Haarlem
- 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
This sketch dates from Matthijs Maris’s formative years, when he spent summers working together with his brother Jacob in the vicinity of Oosterbeek. The wooded hills on the edge of the Rhine Valley were full of picturesque spots. This idyllic scene strikes one as still Romantic, but Maris took great pains to observe and render accurately the fall of sunlight on the flowing water.
