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Mountainous Landscape near Düsseldorf
Also titled Berglandschap bij Düsseldorf
Gerard van Nijmegen (Rotterdam, 1735–1808)
1790
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 62 cm x width 89 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of 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
This untamed view of nature anticipates picturesque features of Romanticism. Van Nijmegen, though, was also inspired by 17th-century Dutch painters, such as Jacob van Ruisdael. He had seen the subject of this painting – a landscape with ruins and drovers driving an ox-wagon over a wooden bridge – while travelling along the Rhine in 1788. He described it in his journal.
