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Lake near Loosdrecht
Also titled Plas bij Loosdrecht
Willem Roelofs (I) (Amsterdam, 1822–1897)
1887
- Medium
- canvas, panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 30 cm x width 45 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- C.D. Reich Bequest
- 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
From the inscription ‘effet de matin’, it is clear that Roelofs made this painting in the early morning. The painter devoted great attention to the shimmer-ing and sparkling of the sky and the reflective surface of the water. As he himself wrote: ‘Far more difficult than expressing the colour of the sky is to render its curvature and the vibrating play of the atmosphere.’
