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Landscape with a Sandy Path
Also titled Landschap met zandweg
Philips Wouwerman (Haarlem, 1619–1668)
c. 1655
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- outer size: depth 10.2 cm (support incl. frame)
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the City of Amsterdam (A. van der Hoop Bequest)
- 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
Philips Wouwerman is known primarily as a horse painter, yet he also painted landscapes. In the 1650s his landscapes became grander and the figures in them smaller. The travellers in this panoramic view walk along a sandy path and wade through the water. The silvery light lends the landscape a southern, Italianate atmosphere. Yet Wouwerman probably never visited Italy.
