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A Wooded Landscape

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Dutch Artist · 1638–1709

Active in Amsterdam, landscape painter Meindert Hobbema met Jacob van Ruisdael sometime before 1659 and became his leading pupil and friend. When Hobbema married the kitchen maid of an Amsterdam official in 1668, Ruisdael was a witness. Early on, Hobbema imitated Ruisdael's style, but by 1663 he had found his own. His sunlit woodland scenes, opened up by roads and glistening ponds, and his views o

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Date: 1667
Medium: Oil on panel
Culture: Dutch
Department: Paintings
Institution: Getty Museum

In the foreground, a dog laps eagerly at a pool of water while a duck dives for food. To the left, a horseman and three travelers on foot walk up the bank to a road. In the middle ground, a lone man fishes in a shallow pool that leads back to a brightly illuminated village. Sketchily painted clouds fill the sky above; sunlight filters through the grove of trees below, lighting areas of the forest and casting reflections in the water. Meindert Hobbema captured both the tranquility and transience of the natural world by masterfully rendering the effects of light and shade, smooth water, billowing clouds, and soaring birds.

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