Norwegian Scenery
Allaert van Everdingen (Dutch, 1621–1675)
1644-1675
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- height 219 cm, width 193 cm, height 245 cm, width 219.6 cm
- Culture
- Dutch
- Museum
- SMK – National Gallery of Denmark
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark: SMK waives its rights in this photograph, 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
View at the SMK – National Gallery of Denmark
About this work
In a small, flat area between vertical rocks and a waterfall, two artists are sketching the magnificent scenery in front of them. Accentuating their industriousness, another man sits idly on a large rock, looking towards them. With these hard-working artists Everdingen focuses attention on one of the key issues in art at the time: painting “after the life” (”naer het leven”). In addition to recording the outward appearance of nature, this aesthetic practice also requires the artist to understand the world through what he sees. The artist wished to arrive at a deeper understanding of the nature and specific sceneries he observed. The painting belongs among Everdingen’s Nordic landscapes, which became a speciality of his after travelling in Sweden and Norway in 1644–45.
