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The Trekvliet Shipping Canal near Rijswijk, known as the ‘View near the Geest Bridge’
Also titled De Trekvliet bij Rijswijk, bekend als ‘Gezicht bij de Geestbrug’
Johan Hendrik Weissenbruch (The Hague, 1824–1903)
1868
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 31 cm x width 50 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
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
A tranquil landscape executed in bright colours: this early painting by Weissenbruch is still very Romantic in feel. Yet unlike the Romantic painters, Weissenbruch did not alter reality to suit his imagination, but gave a topographically accurate representation. The Trekvliet Canal linked The Hague with the neighbouring villages of Rijswijk and Voorburg. In the distance at left is the tower of De Binckhorst Castle, and the windmill called the Laakmolen at right.
