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Polder Landscape
Also titled Polderlandschap
Jan van Goyen (Leiden, 1596–1656)
1644
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- outer size: depth 5.5 cm (support incl. frame)
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of H.W.A. Deterding, London
- 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
The Dutch landscape is defined by its extensive lowlands, as Jan van Goyen painted here. Much of the countryside consists of polders. The water level inside these areas surrounded by dikes is regulated with the help of mills. Schiphol Airport, too, is located in such a polder, approximately four metres below sea level. Before it was empoldered in the 19th century there was a large body of water here called the Haarlemmermeer.
