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Distant View of the Meadows at ’s-Graveland
Also titled Vergezicht over de weiden bij ’s-Graveland
Pieter Gerardus van Os (The Hague, 1776–1839)
1817
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 111 cm x width 89.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of F.G. Waller, Amsterdam
- 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
At the time that Van Os made this painting and the one of the ’s-Graveland canal, not everyone was enthusiastic about such unadorned landscapes with their surprising perspectives. One critic even faulted Van Os for not rendering nature more beautifully. Now they are considered masterpieces of early 19th-century Dutch painting, precisely because of their modern and original vision of the landscape of Holland.
