Landscape with a Thunderstorm Brewing
Also titled Landschap bij naderend onweer
Willem Roelofs (I) (Amsterdam, 1822–1897)
1850
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 12 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of S.H. Levie, Amsterdam
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
This landscape is full of drama and contrasts. Such impressive views were very popular in the first half of the 19th century. Whether they presented a realistic scene was irrelevant; they were made to convey the grandeur and power of nature and to strike an emotional chord.
