# July (‘Summer Luxuriance’)

- By: Jac van Looij (Haarlem, 1855–1930)
- Date: c. 1890 - c. 1910
- Medium: canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: height 120 cm x width 170 cm
- Credit line: On loan from the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, gift friends of the artist
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-C-1645--639c8f433a064cfa8acbb18cedf488f6)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/da50048a185299b998708a5d6ad6e624.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.