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View of Eindhoven from the Northeast
Creator
Isack van OstadeDutch Artist · 1621–1649
All works by this person →Scholars generally agree that, had he lived, Isack van Ostade would likely have proven the more talented of the two van Ostade brothers. His older brother Adriaen van Ostade trained him, but his early landscape studies suggest instruction by a landscape painter, possibly Salomon van Ruysdael, who sued Adriaen in 1640 for "sums due for board and tuition." Isack van Ostade's earliest dated picture i
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- 1645
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, gray, blue, red, and green washes, black and red chalk
- Culture
- Dutch
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Getty Museum
In this scene, Isack van Ostade presented an idealized view of the town of Eindhoven, depicting rustic buildings covered by lacy foliage. His charming vista begins at the right with a rustic house with a thatched roof. Van Ostade's delicate wash and penwork create a picturesque view of rural Holland. During the 1600s in Holland, genre and landscape pictures became popular with city dwellers wanting to recreate in their own homes their enjoyable experiences in the local countryside. To meet the demand for such subjects artists often made picturesque landscape drawings, like this one, which were sold on the open market. In his paintings, van Ostade specialized in large-scale summer and winter views of Holland that are usually crowded with figures. Here he instead focused on the charms of the rustic townscape.
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