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Distant View with Cottages along a Road
Also titled Vergezicht met hutten aan een weg
Philips Koninck (Amsterdam, 1619–1688)
1655
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 13 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the State of the Netherlands, the Vereniging Rembrandt and the Stichting tot Bevordering van de Belangen van het Rijksmuseum
- 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
A few dunes provide the only relief in this otherwise sweeping landscape stretching out under a vast sky. Koninck specialized in flat landscapes, which he built up with countless dots, like the knots in a tapestry. His palette and loose painting style reveal the influence of Rembrandt. The three cottages at the left are based on an etching by Rembrandt from 1650.
