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The Canal at ’s-Graveland
Also titled De vaart bij ’s-Graveland
Pieter Gerardus van Os (The Hague, 1776–1839)
1818
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 111.5 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
In 1817 the Amsterdam merchant Herman Waller com-missioned Van Os to paint two prospects of the village of ’s-Graveland, where Waller had a country house. Van Os painted this scene either from a window in Waller’s house or from the local inn. This high vantage point afforded an unusual perspective. The diagonal view of the ’s-Graveland canal also includes the garden, with a gardener and two dogs.
