# Meadow near Oosterbeek

- By: Gerard Bilders (Utrecht, 1838–1865)
- Date: 1860
- Medium: canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: height 39 cm x width 55 cm
- Credit line: J.B.A.M. Westerwoudt Bequest, Haarlem
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-2298--60c38c68dde3f4f769ebd11f6ebe8161)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/CELNr/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

During the summers in the 1860s, a group of painters gathered to work directly from nature in Oosterbeek, in the province of Gelderland. There, the Veluwe ridge of hills meets the low, broad valley of the Rhine. The generation of artists active before Bilders, the painters of the Romantic period, delighted in capturing that contrast. Bilders, however, singled out the ‘ordinary’ meadows in the forelands of the Rhine.