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Knotty Old Tree in the Dunes with a Fence
Creator
Claes van BeresteynDutch Artist · 1629–1684
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- about 1650–1670
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, on paper
- Culture
- Dutch
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 48653689-b355-4dbc-8169-981d38f055fe
From the Getty Museum record
This drawing depicts a swampy, overgrown dune with gnarled oak tree that dominates the entire sheet. Surrounding the base of the oak is a broken fence and thick bramble that creeps across the immediate foreground. Drawn in dark brown ink with a lightness and dryness of touch that is perfectly fitted to the teeming spikiness of the bramble and the oak's foliage, Knotty Old Tree in the Dunes with a Fence features a claustrophobically dense vegetation. The tree's majestic presence is enhanced by the soaring birds, who are dwarfed by its monumental scale.
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