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July (‘Summer Luxuriance’)
Also titled Juli (‘Zomerweelde’)
Jac van Looij (Haarlem, 1855–1930)
c. 1890 - c. 1910
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 120 cm x width 170 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, gift friends of the artist
- 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
It seems as if Van Looy has lavishly strewn blue flowers all over this large canvas. Looking a bit longer, however, one notices the artist’s house in Soest and the hay wagons behind the tall hedge, and in the right foreground an overturned pot among the flowers. The painter was clearly inspired by the landscapes of Van Gogh, but his representation of nature and the fall of light are more realistic.
