Rijksmuseum

Lake near Loosdrecht

Date

1887

Medium

canvas, panel, oil paint (paint)

Institution

Rijksmuseum

From the inscription ‘effet de matin’, it is clear that Roelofs made this painting in the early morning. The painter devoted great attention to the shimmer-ing and sparkling of the sky and the reflective surface of the water. As he himself wrote: ‘Far more difficult than expressing the colour of the sky is to render its curvature and the vibrating play of the atmosphere.’

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