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Landscape in the Dutch East Indies (Java?)
Also titled Landschap in Nederlands-Indië (Java?)
Maurits E.H.R. van den Kerkhoff (Philippine, 1830–1908)
c. 1858 - c. 1908
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 4.5 cm
- Museum
- 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
In 1858, the then 28-year-old Dutch painter Maurits van den Kerkhoff moved to Java, an island in Indonesia, which was a Dutch colony at the time. Van den Kerkhoff painted Javanese landscapes in a European manner. All the elements are rendered in detail, but with little regard for reality. The light is evenly distributed, giving the scene an air of artificiality.
