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Landscape with an old oak
Also titled Landschap met oude eik
Adriaen van Ostade (Haarlem, 1610–1685)
c. 1639 - c. 1641
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- outer size: depth 4.5 cm (support incl. frame)
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt
- 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
Adriaen van Ostade from Haarlem painted not only a great many genre scenes with farming folk, but also several landscapes. This painting, with its dramatic contrast between light and shadow, betrays the influence of Rembrandt.