# Meadow Landscape with Cattle

- By: Willem Roelofs (I) (Amsterdam, 1822–1897)
- Date: c. 1880
- Medium: panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: height 49.2 cm x width 77.3 cm
- Credit line: Gift of T.L. Laue-Drucker, The Hague
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-4114--81516f0c73eeaf108dc3febffad7bb22)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/ATzRy/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.