Wooded Landscape with Merrymakers in a Cart
Also titled Boslandschap met een vrolijk gezelschap in een wagen
Meindert Hobbema (Amsterdam, voor–1709)
c. 1665
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 90.5 cm x width 109.8 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift from the W. Baron van Dedem Collection, Richmond
- 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 lively party of travellers in a horse-drawn wagon passing farmhouses amid the trees. Figures along the side of the country road respond as they wave exuberantly. When Meindert Hobbema painted this he was at the height of his career, having started as a pupil of Jacob van Ruisdael. While Hobbema’s landscapes often resemble those of his teacher, they are more joyful and light. His treetops reach high into the sky and the leaves glisten in the sun. Interestingly, Hobbema’s trees are lit from behind, which enhances the sense of depth.
