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The Thunderstorm
Also titled Het onweer
Johannes Tavenraat (Rotterdam, 1809–1881)
1843
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 31 cm x width 39.8 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
The rapid, powerful brushwork of this landscape makes it look more like an oil sketch than a finished painting. As such, Tavenraat deviated from the path taken by most Dutch painters at the time. Instead of a smooth painting style and restrained sentiment, he opted for bright colours and dramatic effects of light and dark. His work thus more closely reflects international, mainly French, developments in Romantic painting.
