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Meadow Landscape with Cattle
Also titled Weidelandschap met vee
Willem Roelofs (I) (Amsterdam, 1822–1897)
c. 1880
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 49.2 cm x width 77.3 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of T.L. Laue-Drucker, The Hague
- 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
Unlike Romantic painters, Hague School artists had an eye for the beauty of the polder landscape. Instead of the dramatic and varied landscapes of the Romantic tradition, they painted cows ruminating tranquilly in verdant meadows with a panoramic horizon. These works were greatly appreciated and gave rise to the image of the Netherlands as a green, flat polder landscape under a greyish blue sky.
