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Panorama of Boersberg with Doorwerth Castle in the Distance
Creator
Simon de VliegerDutch Artist · 1600–1653
All works by this person →Simon de Vlieger's training is undocumented, but his early paintings display the monochrome palette of a marine painter. Willem van de Velde the Elder also may have taught him. From the late 1620s de Vlieger worked in Rotterdam, moving to Delft in 1634 and joining the Guild of Saint Luke there. Four years later he was in Amsterdam. He provided designs for festivities associated with Marie de' Medi
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- about 1640–1653
- Medium
- Black chalk and gray wash, on two joined sheets of paper
- Culture
- Dutch
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Using two joined sheets of paper, Simon de Vlieger created a panoramic landscape of expansive space, contrasting textures, and varied rhythms. De Vlieger captured the land's erosion in striking, lyrical curves that take up nearly half the composition and provide an almost abstract pattern and visual rhythm. Above the land rise the soft, feathery trees whose texture contrasts with the earth's smoothness. Their strong, stable vertical thrust helps to balance the winding waves below. De Vlieger also balanced the left and right sides of the drawing, juxtaposing the trees' great height and the mound on which they stand with the wide vista of the town beyond. The field sloping down to the left around which a wooded road curves, the stretch of earth eroded into wavelike mounds, and the snaking river in the distance also appear in de Vlieger's *Wooded Landscape with Sleeping Peasants: Parable of the Sower* in the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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